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.
JERRY GARCIAYou have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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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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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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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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