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.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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