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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.

Jerry Garcia

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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Again Easier Experience Myself Nobody Place Psychedelic Some Stop
There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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Being Bigger Enlarge Make More Part Value
We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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Confusion Drink Drug Experience Real States United
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Evil Lesser Pick Still Two
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.
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Best Consider Do Merely One Only
I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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Blow Chain Going High Maybe Mountain Some Strange Wind
We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Age Everybody New Play Really Religious Service Thigh
Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Adventure Enlarge Everybody Live Need Something
It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Desire Drug Greed Joke Separate Take Think
It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Alte Anything Much Rock Too
The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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Big Circus Ever Expect Famous Fortune Interest Popular Pretty Result Show Sullivan Top Worship
You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Campbell Music Need One Probably Question Ritual Those
We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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Bliss Celebration Encapsulate Good Live Lot Magic Music Myth Need Power Religion
We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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Drug Experiment Fortunate History Legal Little Music Time
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
So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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City Come Every Government Idea Once Plumb Way

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