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Jerry Garcia

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
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
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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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
If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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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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