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Jerry Garcia

Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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Anything Get Guitar Less More Music Play Player Tend Think Virtuoso
We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Crowd Dead Grateful Invent
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
We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Able Good Life Like Live Simple Uncluttered
We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Going Happen Just Line See Were
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
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
People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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Bankrupt Celebrate Context Religion Something
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
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
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
You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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Change Each Everything Repeat Thing Time Universe
The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Art Get Level Production Satisfaction Some Work
Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Able Anybody Hurt Life Like Nobody Unclutter
I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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Characterized Excuse Good Know Life Pain Particularly Think Unhappy
Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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Definite Every May Some Thing Time Various Work

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