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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.

Jerry Garcia

As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
JERRY GARCIA

Anything Except Fun Important Long Play Regard Regardless Thing
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
Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
JERRY GARCIA

Decision Each Energy Go Happen Land Make Person Whether
You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
JERRY GARCIA

Hear Like Listen Make Music Nothing Politician Speech Unmistakably
The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIA

Do Gformulate Nature Non Something
The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
JERRY GARCIA

Able Bein Enlarge Great Point See Thing Through View
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
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
JERRY GARCIA

Evil Lesser Pick Still Two
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

Anywhere Different Effort Guitar Just Lead See Try
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
It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
JERRY GARCIA

Desire Drug Greed Joke Separate Take Think
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Bankrupt Celebrate Context Religion Something
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Also Discard Fond Held Lot Music Musician Notion Ready Seuemce System Whole
Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
JERRY GARCIA

Always Best Expect Farther Faster Future Higher Hope Jump Live Reach Ryun Win Worst
I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
JERRY GARCIA

Action Else Everybody Get Matter Mop Music Over Revolution Think
If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
JERRY GARCIA

Complete Cyberspace Discussion Holographic InterAction Mind Model Phenomenon Universe

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