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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.

Jerry Garcia

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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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… 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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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