See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
JERRY GARCIAHunter 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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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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 know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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