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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

I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIA

Cop Crime Decide Drug Everybody Just Money Problem Think
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
It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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Best Do Enough One Only Perceive What
The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Daed Essentially Grateful Play Religious Service
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 mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Cities Government Mean
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIA

Apart Cities Lame Part Political Real Social
It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Alte Anything Much Rock Too
I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Catch Change Consciousness Everything Happen Important Matter Mistsly Thing
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
How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Beethoven Expose Just Lack Training World
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 didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Crowd Dead Grateful Invent
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Actually Experience Leg New Reality Somebody Specifically Step Through Walk Whole
Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
JERRY GARCIA

Always Faster Further Higher Jump Raech Run Win
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Also Discard Fond Held Lot Music Musician Notion Ready Seuemce System Whole

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