"Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times."
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"American society has gone completely into denial."
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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. 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. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing."
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"If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work."
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"The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level."
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"The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights."
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"Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace."
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"The sun will shine in my back door one day."
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"If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil."
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"You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. 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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"I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain."
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"I think that the revolution in music is over, and what's left is a mop-up action. It's a matter of the news getting out to everybody else. I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It's mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that. Everything is traditionally slow - much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow."
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"People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth."
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"It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now."
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"What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place."
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"There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun."
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"In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff."
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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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"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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"I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. 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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