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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.

Jerry Garcia

You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Get Idea Music One Past Thing
I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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Boredom Lock Nothing Point Reference Room Save Ultimately View
It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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Best Do Enough One Only Perceive What
An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Consciousness Need No Organism Really Survive
You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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Change Each Everything Repeat Thing Time Universe
The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Able Bein Enlarge Great Point See Thing Through View
In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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Being Best Earth Existence Feel Guitar Like Musical Own Player Thing
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
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.
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Decision Each Energy Go Happen Land Make Person Whether
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.
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Also Discard Fond Held Lot Music Musician Notion Ready Seuemce System Whole
Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Been Earth Ever Everything Far Faster Must Slow Still Traditional
The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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Able Business Else Label Make Matter Music Right Somebody Sound Thing
Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Alive Experience How Little Much Pain Part Partly Tell Way
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
Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Amount Art Cultural Lot More Music Objective Surprise Think
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Go Someplace Something Stumble Think Truth

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