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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.

Jerry Garcia

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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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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