We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
JERRY GARCIAHunter 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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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.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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