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

Jerry Garcia

Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Every Know Time When Happen
The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Come Dialect Differentiate Example Language Like Nothing Part Play Set
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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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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.
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