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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

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
American society has gone completely into denial.
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Completely Country Gone People Society
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
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
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
Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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Blah Confuse Contradictory Crime Criminality Make Really Sense
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
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
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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Allow Alone Happen Intention Make No Something Sort Way
We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Able Good Life Like Live Simple Uncluttered
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
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
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.
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Before Dead Essential Grateful Language Music Play Religious Service Talk Whole Spiritual
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
There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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Everybody Key Need Reality Same Something Thing Virtual
What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Beem Long Strange Trip
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
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
We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Going Happen Just Line See Were
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
You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Best One Only Want What
I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Askin Believe Know Lot Love
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
It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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Chaos Clear Counterculture Kind Look might Pretty Reality Some Undiferentiate Weirdness
Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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How Magic Music
Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Be Do Incredibly Just Pathetic Somebody Something

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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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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