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American society has gone completely into denial.

Jerry Garcia

I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
JERRY GARCIA

Adventurous Cause Country Danger Illusion Kind Law Lose Order Some Spirit Substitute Think
And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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Bring Grandparent Kid Lot Parents People Stuff
We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Change Involve Now Really Society Some Undergoing Weird
There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
JERRY GARCIA

Bliss Fun Joy Need Real Ritual
We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Crowd Dead Grateful Invent
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
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
I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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Blue Certainty Country Kind Like Link Music Only Play Purist Stuff
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
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
JERRY GARCIA

Ball Character Need Nerve Quality Real Society Whatever
I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIA

Able Adventure Being Country Dead Grateful Kind Large Out Represent Spirit Think
Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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Actually Experience Leg New Reality Somebody Specifically Step Through Walk Whole
All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Anywhere Get Know Listen never Society
Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Alive Experience How Little Much Pain Part Partly Tell Way
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.
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Able Business Else Label Make Matter Music Right Somebody Sound Thing
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

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