I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
JERRY GARCIANobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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