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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.

Jerry Garcia

Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.

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