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Jerry Garcia

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.
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Blah Confuse Contradictory Crime Criminality Make Really Sense
There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Bliss Fun Joy Need Real Ritual
… 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
The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Far Go How Immense Implication Mean
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 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
It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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Chaos Clear Counterculture Kind Look might Pretty Reality Some Undiferentiate Weirdness
We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Completely Country Gone People Society
The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Beem Long Strange Trip
I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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Cop Crime Decide Drug Everybody Just Money Problem Think
It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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Curious Enough Filter Onlooker Out Parent Quirly Repellent Tremendously Tune
We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Crowd Dead Grateful Invent
You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Campbell Music Need One Probably Question Ritual Those
The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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