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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

Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
JERRY GARCIA

Actually Experience Leg New Reality Somebody Specifically Step Through Walk Whole
And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIA

Lifetime Material More Still Twenty Use
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
JERRY GARCIA

Also Discard Fond Held Lot Music Musician Notion Ready Seuemce System Whole
The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
JERRY GARCIA

Daed Essentially Grateful Play Religious Service
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Chaos Clear Counterculture Kind Look might Pretty Reality Some Undiferentiate Weirdness
I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIA

Cities Government Mean
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
JERRY GARCIA

Ball Character Need Nerve Quality Real Society Whatever
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
JERRY GARCIA

Choose Constant Evil Lesser Still Two
Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
JERRY GARCIA

Again Easier Experience Myself Nobody Place Psychedelic Some Stop
See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
JERRY GARCIA

Around Capitol Country Fillmore Grovy Man Pretty Smooth Stage Theatre Whole
The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
JERRY GARCIA

Art Get Level Production Satisfaction Some Work
An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
JERRY GARCIA

Consciousness Need No Organism Really Survive
The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
JERRY GARCIA

Bill Happiness Kind Overview Pursuit Thing Tight
I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
JERRY GARCIA

Characterized Excuse Good Know Life Pain Particularly Think Unhappy
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
JERRY GARCIA

Best Consider Do Merely One Only
I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
JERRY GARCIA

Every Know Time When Happen

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