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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

Jerry Garcia

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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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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 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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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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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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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

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