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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

And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
JERRY GARCIA

Concern Drug Far Like Problem Stuff
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 play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
JERRY GARCIA

Age Everybody New Play Really Religious Service Thigh
Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
JERRY GARCIA

Best Expect Future Hope Life Live Worst
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
JERRY GARCIA

Evil Lesser Pick Still Two
… 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
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
JERRY GARCIA

Apparently Do Ill Intrigued Live Mentality More Percent Poverty Read Seven Seventy Somewhere Themselves
I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
JERRY GARCIA

Askin Believe Know Lot Love
Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
JERRY GARCIA

Defeat Done Lock Sone Stress Time Unswing Up
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
Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
JERRY GARCIA

Ach All Anyone Bandstand Big Cat Hand Must Right Sweat
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
The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
JERRY GARCIA

Able Bein Enlarge Great Point See Thing Through View
Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
JERRY GARCIA

Always Faster Further Higher Jump Raech Run Win
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Also Discard Fond Held Lot Music Musician Notion Ready Seuemce System Whole
I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
JERRY GARCIA

Human Light Little People Possibly Religious Repress Unhappy

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