We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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