“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.”

We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.

The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.

What a long strange trip it’s been.

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.

You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.

I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.

Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.

The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.

American society has gone completely into denial.

Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.

I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.

Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.

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.

I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.

Don’t gift me your wings, if you have no intention of letting me fly.

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.

The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.

My intention is never to hurt anybody. I’m happy when people are having a good time.