"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 the live show is still our main thing."
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"There are any number of things that survive great, and don't need any kind of consciousness, so why bother going through all the trouble of evolving monkeys that don't run very well or climb very fast or have particularly sharp teeth, but have big heads."
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"The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept."
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"Things come up from the outside, the outside world says, okay, you have do this, you have to go here and here and here, and these are your options. You can be here or you can be here. You can do this, or you can do this. You can go here, or you can go there. So each one of those things becomes a place of decision, and the way we make decisions is that we all get together and if somebody doesn't feel right about it or it doesn't seem to sit right, usually we'll go with the no vote. If somebody's not comfortable with it, we'll figure it's not going to be worth doing."
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"I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like."
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"The reality which is pretending be reality right now, impersonating reality, is just a pretty flimsy structure. There is not a lot of substance to it. You can't find people who are actively involved of affected by it. What you see is a completely different world, what you see is the world of the homeless, and so forth."
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"As a musician you fall into certain patterns that you're not conscious of, unless you start listening to yourself on tape a lot. If you do that you start recognizing habits; then you have to try and break them."
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"Sometimes you have to be clever."
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"With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment."
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"I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully."
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"The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem."
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"I recognize that as a musician there is a certain chauvinism attached to it, which is the thing of, "I spent my time learning how to play. You didn't spend time learning how to play, therefore, you are not a musician.""
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"Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison."
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"You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do."
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"Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it."
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"Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural."
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"If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax."
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"I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities."
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"The only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer."
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