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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

Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
JERRY GARCIA

Alright Teethm Spit Through Whistle
… 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.’
JERRY GARCIA

Around Band Candidate Dead Everyone Grateful Great Like New Nobody Our Say
And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIA

Lifetime Material More Still Twenty Use
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

Barely Lately Light Long Occur Other See Shine Sometimes Strange Trip
For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
JERRY GARCIA

Danger Guitar Important Love Most Music Play Thing
And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
JERRY GARCIA

Bring Grandparent Kid Lot Parents People Stuff
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
You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
JERRY GARCIA

Gonna Learn Now Wanna
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
JERRY GARCIA

Authentic Death Die Kill Matter Mean
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.
JERRY GARCIA

City Come Every Government Idea Once Plumb Way
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
We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
JERRY GARCIA

Crowd Dead Grateful Invent
Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIA

Be Do Incredibly Just Pathetic Somebody Something
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
Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
JERRY GARCIA

Listen River Rock Sing Song Soul Sweet
The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
JERRY GARCIA

Around Block Else Eternity Outside Reality Something Talk Walk

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