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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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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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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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 turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Blah, 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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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