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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

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
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Analyze Emotion Fundamental Interstm Try Know Music Some Something Ultimate
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Drug Experiment Fortunate History Legal Little Music Time
Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
JERRY GARCIA

Defeat Done Lock Sone Stress Time Unswing Up
The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
JERRY GARCIA

Able Business Else Label Make Matter Music Right Somebody Sound Thing
We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
JERRY GARCIA

Change Involve Now Really Society Some Undergoing Weird
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
The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIA

Come Dialect Differentiate Example Language Like Nothing Part Play Set
Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
JERRY GARCIA

Again Easier Experience Myself Nobody Place Psychedelic Some Stop
Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
JERRY GARCIA

Ever Grey Line Silver Touch
I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Cities Government Mean
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
JERRY GARCIA

Evil Lesser Pick Still Two
The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
JERRY GARCIA

Big Circus Ever Expect Famous Fortune Interest Popular Pretty Result Show Sullivan Top Worship
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Any Kind Power Revolution Struggle Think Want War
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
JERRY GARCIA

Get Idea Music One Past Thing
It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
JERRY GARCIA

Alte Anything Much Rock Too

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