We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
JERRY GARCIAThe implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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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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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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