You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
JERRY GARCIAI have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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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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The 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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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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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