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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

We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Crowd Dead Grateful Invent
I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Cities Government Mean
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
As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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Anything Except Fun Important Long Play Regard Regardless Thing
Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Always Faster Further Higher Jump Raech Run Win
It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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Best Do Enough One Only Perceive What
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.
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Able Business Else Label Make Matter Music Right Somebody Sound Thing
If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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All Anything Assume Dynamic Learn Life Play Reason
Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Alright Teethm Spit Through Whistle
And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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Clean Next Person Talk
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Go Someplace Something Stumble Think Truth
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Authentic Death Die Kill Matter Mean
I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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Action Else Everybody Get Matter Mop Music Over Revolution Think
People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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Bankrupt Celebrate Context Religion Something
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.
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Barely Lately Light Long Occur Other See Shine Sometimes Strange Trip
I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Able Adventure Being Country Dead Grateful Kind Large Out Represent Spirit Think
The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Daed Essentially Grateful Play Religious Service
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
I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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Amplifire Better Electric Get Hardware Instrument Music Need Try
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
It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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Culture Matter Music Play Something Together
We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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Everybody Licorice Like People Really
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
Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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Actual Carried Dance Get Happen High Listen Lot Politician Real Really Sweaty
In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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Bottom End Hard Light Real Stuff Top Universe
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
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

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