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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.

Jerry Garcia

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.
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Also Discard Fond Held Lot Music Musician Notion Ready Seuemce System Whole
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
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
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Get Idea Music One Past Thing
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.
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Actually Experience Leg New Reality Somebody Specifically Step Through Walk Whole
Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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Blah Confuse Contradictory Crime Criminality Make Really Sense
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
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
Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Be Incredibly Pathetic Somebody Something Us
I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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Biological Drive Evolution Question Survive Term
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
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
Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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Anything Else Insofar Language Music Musician Need Play Universal
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Go Someplace Something Stumble Think Truth
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.
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Around Capitol Country Fillmore Grovy Man Pretty Smooth Stage Theatre Whole
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Always Anything Been Character Folk Fond Fragment Music One Song Verse

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