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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

Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Good Just Much Right Thing
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
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.
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Ball Character Need Nerve Quality Real Society Whatever
We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Going Happen Just Line See Were
Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Alive Experience How Little Much Pain Part Partly Tell Way
An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Consciousness Need No Organism Really Survive
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
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
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
If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Go Immediately Obvious Something Work
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
Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Able Anybody Hurt Life Like Nobody Unclutter
I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Every Know Time When Happen
What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Get Great Human might Race Reach Sense
I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Cities Government Mean
We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Crowd Dead Grateful Invent

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