It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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