If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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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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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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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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 mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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