I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIAAmerican society has gone completely into denial.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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