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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.

Jerry Garcia

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
American society has gone completely into denial.
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Completely Country Gone People Society
Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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Anything Else Insofar Language Music Musician Need Play Universal
We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIA

Everybody Licorice Like People Really
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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Also Discard Fond Held Lot Music Musician Notion Ready Seuemce System Whole
Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIA

Barely Lately Light Long Occur Other See Shine Sometimes Strange Trip
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.
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Apparently Do Ill Intrigued Live Mentality More Percent Poverty Read Seven Seventy Somewhere Themselves
I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
JERRY GARCIA

Biological Drive Evolution Question Survive Term
There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
JERRY GARCIA

Being Bigger Enlarge Make More Part Value
So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
JERRY GARCIA

City Come Every Government Idea Once Plumb Way
And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
JERRY GARCIA

Concern Drug Far Like Problem Stuff
Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
JERRY GARCIA

Always Faster Further Higher Jump Raech Run Win
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Clean Next Person Talk
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
It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
JERRY GARCIA

Culture Matter Music Play Something Together
I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
JERRY GARCIA

Every Know Time When Happen

Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.

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