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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

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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Best Consider Do Merely One Only
Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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Listen Music What
The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Do Gformulate Nature Non Something
The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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Big Circus Ever Expect Famous Fortune Interest Popular Pretty Result Show Sullivan Top Worship
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
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
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
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
I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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Action Else Everybody Get Matter Mop Music Over Revolution Think
Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Been Earth Ever Everything Far Faster Must Slow Still Traditional
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
We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Age Everybody New Play Really Religious Service Thigh
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
Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Listen River Rock Sing Song Soul Sweet
I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Human Light Little People Possibly Religious Repress Unhappy
If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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All Anything Assume Dynamic Learn Life Play Reason
I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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Boredom Lock Nothing Point Reference Room Save Ultimately View
There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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Everybody Key Need Reality Same Something Thing Virtual
We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Going Happen Just Line See Were
We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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Confusion Drink Drug Experience Real States United
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
The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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Able Been Being Communication Far Matter Reality Share So Somebody Thing
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
To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Basic Freedom Happiness Key Me Pursuit Thing Ultimate
I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Askin Believe Know Lot Love
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
Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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How Magic Music

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