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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.

Jerry Garcia

If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Get Light Thunder Will
If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Go Immediately Obvious Something Work
It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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Culture Matter Music Play Something Together
Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Defeat Done Lock Sone Stress Time Unswing Up
All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Anywhere Get Know Listen never Society
I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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Boredom Lock Nothing Point Reference Room Save Ultimately View
Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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Actual Carried Dance Get Happen High Listen Lot Politician Real Really Sweaty
Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Ever Grey Line Silver Touch
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
In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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Being Best Earth Existence Feel Guitar Like Musical Own Player Thing
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
Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Amount Art Cultural Lot More Music Objective Surprise 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
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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Forte Hunter Melody Nice Really Serviceable Something Sometimes
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Dialect Language Music Powerful Some Think Universal Very
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
Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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Blah Confuse Contradictory Crime Criminality Make Really Sense
The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Bill Happiness Kind Overview Pursuit Thing Tight
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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Apart Cities Lame Part Political Real Social
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
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
What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Anything Else Peaceful Planet Think
We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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Drug Experiment Fortunate History Legal Little Music Time
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
I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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Analyze Emotion Fundamental Interstm Try Know Music Some Something Ultimate
The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Come Dialect Differentiate Example Language Like Nothing Part Play Set
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

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