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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.

Jerry Garcia

Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIA

Barely Lately Light Long Occur Other See Shine Sometimes Strange Trip
… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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Around Band Candidate Dead Everyone Grateful Great Like New Nobody Our Say
We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
JERRY GARCIA

Any Kind Power Revolution Struggle Think Want War
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
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
The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
JERRY GARCIA

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.
JERRY GARCIA

Everybody Licorice Like People Really
The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
JERRY GARCIA

Art Get Level Production Satisfaction Some Work
We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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Confusion Drink Drug Experience Real States United
I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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Adventurous Cause Country Danger Illusion Kind Law Lose Order Some Spirit Substitute Think
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
JERRY GARCIA

Evil Lesser Pick Still Two
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
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
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Go Someplace Something Stumble Think Truth
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
If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
JERRY GARCIA

All Anything Assume Dynamic Learn Life Play Reason

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