Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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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