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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

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.
JERRY GARCIA

Alive Cat Church Constant Country Everyone Hear History Kind Music Open Radio Record Street
You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Gonna Learn Now Wanna
Nothing left to do but smile.
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But Do Left Nothing Smile
A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Ahead Few Good Human Life Move Race Simple Step
As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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Anything Except Fun Important Long Play Regard Regardless Thing
There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
JERRY GARCIA

Everybody Key Need Reality Same Something Thing Virtual
… 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 have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Get Idea Music One Past Thing
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Anything Get Guitar Less More Music Play Player Tend Think Virtuoso
I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
JERRY GARCIA

Biological Drive Evolution Question Survive Term
The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
JERRY GARCIA

Able Business Else Label Make Matter Music Right Somebody Sound Thing
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
If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
JERRY GARCIA

Complete Cyberspace Discussion Holographic InterAction Mind Model Phenomenon Universe
The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Bill Happiness Kind Overview Pursuit Thing Tight
It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Alte Anything Much Rock Too
It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
JERRY GARCIA

Best Do Enough One Only Perceive What

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?’

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