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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.

Jerry Garcia

I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIA

Cop Crime Decide Drug Everybody Just Money Problem Think
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Go Someplace Something Stumble Think Truth
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Get Idea Music One Past Thing
I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
JERRY GARCIA

Analyze Emotion Fundamental Interstm Try Know Music Some Something Ultimate
Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Ever Grey Line Silver Touch
The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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Big Circus Ever Expect Famous Fortune Interest Popular Pretty Result Show Sullivan Top Worship
Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Defeat Done Lock Sone Stress Time Unswing Up
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Best Consider Do Merely One Only
The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
JERRY GARCIA

Anybody Certainty Everybody Fool Listen Long Music Useless
I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
JERRY GARCIA

Black Buttermilk Deadhead Equate Licorice Like Many People Really
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Being Bigger Enlarge Make More Part Value
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Bliss Celebration Encapsulate Good Live Lot Magic Music Myth Need Power Religion
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.
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Danger Guitar Important Love Most Music Play Thing
Too much of a good thing is just about right
JERRY GARCIA

Good Just Much Right Thing
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Clean Next Person Talk
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
JERRY GARCIA

Country Mostly Nature Racist Still Think Xenophobic

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