Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIAWe need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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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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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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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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