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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.

Jerry Garcia

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

Askin Believe Know Lot Love
I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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Blue Certainty Country Kind Like Link Music Only Play Purist Stuff
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Get Idea Music One Past Thing
We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Crowd Dead Grateful Invent
For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Danger Guitar Important Love Most Music Play Thing
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.
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Always Anything Been Character Folk Fond Fragment Music One Song Verse
And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Concern Drug Far Like Problem Stuff
I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Cities Government Mean
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
You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Gonna Learn Now Wanna
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
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
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Choose Constant Evil Lesser Still Two
An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
JERRY GARCIA

Consciousness Need No Organism Really Survive
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

Amplifire Better Electric Get Hardware Instrument Music Need Try
What a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIA

Beem Long Strange Trip

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