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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Jerry Garcia

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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Forte Hunter Melody Nice Really Serviceable Something Sometimes
Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Adventure Enlarge Everybody Live Need Something
And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Concern Drug Far Like Problem Stuff
American society has gone completely into denial.
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Completely Country Gone People Society
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
I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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Amplifire Better Electric Get Hardware Instrument Music Need Try
If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Go Immediately Obvious Something Work
Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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Actual Carried Dance Get Happen High Listen Lot Politician Real Really Sweaty
If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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Complete Cyberspace Discussion Holographic InterAction Mind Model Phenomenon Universe
It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Desire Drug Greed Joke Separate Take Think
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
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
It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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Culture Matter Music Play Something Together
You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Best One Only Want What
What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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Allow Alone Happen Intention Make No Something Sort Way
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.
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City Come Every Government Idea Once Plumb Way

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