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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Jerry Garcia

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Choose Constant Evil Lesser Still Two
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
There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Bliss Fun Joy Need Real Ritual
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
Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Alive Experience How Little Much Pain Part Partly Tell Way
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.
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City Come Every Government Idea Once Plumb Way
… 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
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.
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Analyze Emotion Fundamental Interstm Try Know Music Some Something Ultimate
And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Concern Drug Far Like Problem Stuff
Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Ach All Anyone Bandstand Big Cat Hand Must Right Sweat
And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Lifetime Material More Still Twenty Use
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
If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Amount Devote Energy Enjoy Life Out Reasonable Something Work
How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Beethoven Expose Just Lack Training World
If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Get Light Thunder Will
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

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