We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about 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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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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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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