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… 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.’

Jerry Garcia

We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
JERRY GARCIA

Area Certainly Fun Idea Large More Particular Quite Restrict Satisfy Style
Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Listen River Rock Sing Song Soul Sweet
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
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
If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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All Anything Assume Dynamic Learn Life Play Reason
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
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
Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Alright Teethm Spit Through Whistle
The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
JERRY GARCIA

Anybody Certainty Everybody Fool Listen Long Music Useless
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
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Danger Guitar Important Love Most Music Play Thing
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
JERRY GARCIA

Apparently Do Ill Intrigued Live Mentality More Percent Poverty Read Seven Seventy Somewhere Themselves
Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
JERRY GARCIA

Ach All Anyone Bandstand Big Cat Hand Must Right Sweat
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
JERRY GARCIA

Evil Lesser Pick Still Two
The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
JERRY GARCIA

Able Bein Enlarge Great Point See Thing Through View
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
JERRY GARCIA

Get Idea Music One Past Thing

… 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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… 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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