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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.

Jerry Garcia

Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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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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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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