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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.

Jerry Garcia

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 bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Big Biggest Corporation Food Industry Issue Takeover Whole
If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Get Light Thunder Will
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.
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Anything Except Fun Important Long Play Regard Regardless Thing
Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Be Do Incredibly Just Pathetic Somebody Something
Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Able Anybody Hurt Life Like Nobody Unclutter
Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Ever Grey Line Silver Touch
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
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.
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Evil Lesser Pick Still Two
You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Best One Only Want What
There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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Being Bigger Enlarge Make More Part Value
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Authentic Death Die Kill Matter Mean
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Choose Constant Evil Lesser Still Two
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
So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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City Come Every Government Idea Once Plumb Way
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
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
A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Ahead Few Good Human Life Move Race Simple Step
The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Far Go How Immense Implication Mean
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
It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Desire Drug Greed Joke Separate Take Think
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
To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Basic Freedom Happiness Key Me Pursuit Thing Ultimate
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.
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Barely Lately Light Long Occur Other See Shine Sometimes Strange Trip
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
In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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Bottom End Hard Light Real Stuff Top Universe

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