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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Jerry Garcia

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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