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Jerry Garcia

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. 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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Jerry Garcia is saying that being a musician doesn't limit his thoughts only to music; he sometimes thinks about other topics like plumbing or city government. These non-musical ideas come to him naturally and unexpectedly, just like his musical ideas do.

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