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.
JERRY GARCIANow it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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 bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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We 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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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