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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

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

Being Best Earth Existence Feel Guitar Like Musical Own Player Thing
The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Big Biggest Corporation Food Industry Issue Takeover Whole
Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Able Anybody Hurt Life Like Nobody Unclutter
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
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
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
What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Get Great Human might Race Reach Sense
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
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
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
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
Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
JERRY GARCIA

Before Dead Essential Grateful Language Music Play Religious Service Talk Whole Spiritual
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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Ball Character Need Nerve Quality Real Society Whatever
I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
JERRY GARCIA

Blue Certainty Country Kind Like Link Music Only Play Purist Stuff
I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Catch Change Consciousness Everything Happen Important Matter Mistsly Thing
Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
JERRY GARCIA

Best Expect Future Hope Life Live Worst

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