Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
JERRY GARCIAThe context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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 bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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