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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

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
To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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Alive Cat Church Constant Country Everyone Hear History Kind Music Open Radio Record Street
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
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
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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Consciousness Evil Get Good Life Manifestation Reject Try Whole
And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Lifetime Material More Still Twenty Use
The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Do Gformulate Nature Non Something
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
We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Crowd Dead Grateful Invent
Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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Anything Get Guitar Less More Music Play Player Tend Think Virtuoso
What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Get Great Human might Race Reach Sense
How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Beethoven Expose Just Lack Training World
I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Cities Government Mean
Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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Before Dead Essential Grateful Language Music Play Religious Service Talk Whole Spiritual
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.
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Any Kind Power Revolution Struggle Think Want War
What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Beem Long Strange Trip

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