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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.

Jerry Garcia

The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Big Biggest Corporation Food Industry Issue Takeover Whole
We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Able Good Life Like Live Simple Uncluttered
I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Every Know Time When Happen
In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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Always Anything Been Character Folk Fond Fragment Music One Song Verse
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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Consciousness Evil Get Good Life Manifestation Reject Try Whole
Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Alright Teethm Spit Through Whistle
People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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Bankrupt Celebrate Context Religion Something
Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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How Magic Music
The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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Anybody Certainty Everybody Fool Listen Long Music Useless
An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Consciousness Need No Organism Really Survive
And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Concern Drug Far Like Problem Stuff
I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Human Light Little People Possibly Religious Repress Unhappy
Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Amount Art Cultural Lot More Music Objective Surprise Think
I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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Adventurous Cause Country Danger Illusion Kind Law Lose Order Some Spirit Substitute Think
Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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Anything Get Guitar Less More Music Play Player Tend Think Virtuoso
To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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Alive Cat Church Constant Country Everyone Hear History Kind Music Open Radio Record Street
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Go Someplace Something Stumble Think Truth
It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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Chaos Clear Counterculture Kind Look might Pretty Reality Some Undiferentiate Weirdness
… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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Around Band Candidate Dead Everyone Grateful Great Like New Nobody Our Say
You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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Hear Like Listen Make Music Nothing Politician Speech Unmistakably
The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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Around Block Else Eternity Outside Reality Something Talk Walk
What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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Allow Alone Happen Intention Make No Something Sort Way
We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Going Happen Just Line See Were
There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Bliss Fun Joy Need Real Ritual
I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Askin Believe Know Lot Love
What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Anything Else Peaceful Planet Think
I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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Audience Demographic Intension never Now Our Out Really Stretch

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