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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.

Jerry Garcia

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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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Ach All Anyone Bandstand Big Cat Hand Must Right Sweat
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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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