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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.

Jerry Garcia

See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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Around Capitol Country Fillmore Grovy Man Pretty Smooth Stage Theatre Whole
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.
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Anybody Certainty Everybody Fool Listen Long Music Useless
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
Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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How Magic Music
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Evil Lesser Pick Still Two
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
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
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
Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Always Best Expect Farther Faster Future Higher Hope Jump Live Reach Ryun Win Worst
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
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
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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Conscious Else Everything Evolution Forget High Molecule Really See Understand Universal Yourself
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
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
I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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

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