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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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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 can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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