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.
JERRY GARCIAWhat’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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