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Too much of a good thing is just about right

Jerry Garcia

I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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Characterized Excuse Good Know Life Pain Particularly Think Unhappy
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.
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Anybody Certainty Everybody Fool Listen Long Music Useless
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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Also Discard Fond Held Lot Music Musician Notion Ready Seuemce System Whole
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.
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Blue Certainty Country Kind Like Link Music Only Play Purist Stuff
An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Consciousness Need No Organism Really Survive
Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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How Magic Music
The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIA

Come Dialect Differentiate Example Language Like Nothing Part Play Set
You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Gonna Learn Now Wanna
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Go Someplace Something Stumble Think Truth
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Ball Character Need Nerve Quality Real Society Whatever
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
JERRY GARCIA

Evil Lesser Pick Still Two
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
I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Able Adventure Being Country Dead Grateful Kind Large Out Represent Spirit Think
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Get Idea Music One Past Thing
It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
JERRY GARCIA

Best Do Enough One Only Perceive What

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