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.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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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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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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