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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.

Jerry Garcia

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.
JERRY GARCIA

Anybody Certainty Everybody Fool Listen Long Music Useless
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
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

Apparently Do Ill Intrigued Live Mentality More Percent Poverty Read Seven Seventy Somewhere Themselves
We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Going Happen Just Line See Were
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
JERRY GARCIA

Forte Hunter Melody Nice Really Serviceable Something Sometimes
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Always Anything Been Character Folk Fond Fragment Music One Song Verse
Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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Actual Carried Dance Get Happen High Listen Lot Politician Real Really Sweaty
The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Bill Happiness Kind Overview Pursuit Thing Tight
The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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Around Block Else Eternity Outside Reality Something Talk Walk
The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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Able Been Being Communication Far Matter Reality Share So Somebody Thing
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
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.
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Bankrupt Celebrate Context Religion Something
All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Anywhere Get Know Listen never Society
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Evil Lesser Pick Still Two
What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
JERRY GARCIA

Get Great Human might Race Reach Sense
A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIA

Ahead Few Good Human Life Move Race Simple Step

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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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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