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 GARCIANow 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.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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