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

Jerry Garcia

… 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.’
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Around Band Candidate Dead Everyone Grateful Great Like New Nobody Our Say
Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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Listen Music What
I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Every Know Time When Happen
Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Always Faster Further Higher Jump Raech Run Win
All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Anywhere Get Know Listen never Society
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
And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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Bring Grandparent Kid Lot Parents People Stuff
Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Good Just Much Right Thing
In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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Always Anything Been Character Folk Fond Fragment Music One Song Verse
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.
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Anybody Certainty Everybody Fool Listen Long Music Useless
A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Ahead Few Good Human Life Move Race Simple Step
Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Amount Art Cultural Lot More Music Objective Surprise Think
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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Apart Cities Lame Part Political Real Social
See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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Around Capitol Country Fillmore Grovy Man Pretty Smooth Stage Theatre Whole
I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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Blow Chain Going High Maybe Mountain Some Strange Wind
To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Basic Freedom Happiness Key Me Pursuit Thing Ultimate
I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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Cop Crime Decide Drug Everybody Just Money Problem Think
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.
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Apparently Do Ill Intrigued Live Mentality More Percent Poverty Read Seven Seventy Somewhere Themselves
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
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
We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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Area Certainly Fun Idea Large More Particular Quite Restrict Satisfy Style
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Get Idea Music One Past Thing
Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Adventure Enlarge Everybody Live Need Something
The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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Bit Context First Fragment Human Moral Piece Rather Religion Superstructural
What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Been Earth Ever Everything Far Faster Must Slow Still Traditional
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.
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Being Best Earth Existence Feel Guitar Like Musical Own Player Thing

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