Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
JERRY GARCIAAmerican society has gone completely into denial.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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