Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
JERRY GARCIABlah, 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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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