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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.

Jerry Garcia

Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
JERRY GARCIA

Been Earth Ever Everything Far Faster Must Slow Still Traditional
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
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Country Mostly Nature Racist Still Think Xenophobic
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Blah Confuse Contradictory Crime Criminality Make Really Sense
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
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
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
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
I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Black Buttermilk Deadhead Equate Licorice Like Many People Really
You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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Hear Like Listen Make Music Nothing Politician Speech Unmistakably
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
Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Being Big Coopted Country Gun Now Right Test Under Way
We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Age Everybody New Play Really Religious Service Thigh
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
We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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Bliss Celebration Encapsulate Good Live Lot Magic Music Myth Need Power Religion
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
JERRY GARCIA

Conscious Else Everything Evolution Forget High Molecule Really See Understand Universal Yourself

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