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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.
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The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.
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Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.
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I'm still good for hitting the road. I'll be doing that a fair bit.
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I don't believe in death.
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I love the farm, I love growing stuff.
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Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.
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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 - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.
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My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do.
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If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
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Let there be songs to fill the air.
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If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
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I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?
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So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
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It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.
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Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
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So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
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Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.
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When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.
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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. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
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The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.