\u20141972<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\u201cThe Rolling Stones never did have a cool audience. [At concerts] Jagger would make his little speech about turn on the lights so we can see you, and everybody would scream and run up to the stage. It was so predictable. They knew it would work. They\u2019re good \u2013 they don\u2019t need any tricks.\u201d \u20141971<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI didn\u2019t get serious about music until I was 18 and I heard bluegrass. I heard Earl Scruggs play five-string banjo and I thought, \u2018That\u2019s something I have to be able to do.\u2019 I fell in love with the sound, and I started earnestly trying to do what I was hearing. That became the basis for everything else that was my model.\u201d \u20141994<\/em><\/p>\n\n\tOn Health<\/strong>
\u201cI\u2019m basically a lazy fuck. Things have to get to the point where they\u2019re screaming before I\u2019ll do anything. I could see it coming, and I kept saying to myself: Well, as soon as I get myself together, I\u2019m going to start working out. I\u2019m going on that diet.\u201d \u20141993<\/em><\/p>\n\n\tOn Money<\/strong>
\u201cI\u2019ve always thought the Grateful Dead should be sponsored by the government or something. It should be a public service, you know, and they should set us up at places that need to get high. That\u2019s the kind of thing we should be doing. We shouldn\u2019t be in business.\u201d \u20141972<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\u201cSomehow, we\u2019ve ended up successes. But this ain\u2019t exactly what we had in mind, 12,000-seat halls and big bucks. We\u2019re trying not to redefine. What can we do that\u2019s more fun, more interesting?\u201d \u20141973<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\u201cWe really manage ourselves. The band is the board of directors, and we have regular meetings with our lawyers and our accountants that take about three hours, every three weeks. The last couple of times, I\u2019ve been there screaming, \u2018Hey, you guys!\u2019 Because there are times when you go onstage and it\u2019s just plain hard to do and you start to wonder, \u2018Why the fuck are we doing this if it\u2019s so hard?’\u201d \u20141991<\/em><\/p>\n\n\tOn the Sixties<\/strong>
It wasn\u2019t a gig,<\/em> it was the Acid Tests, where anything was OK. Thousands of people, man, all helplessly stoned, all finding themselves in a roomful of other thousands of people, none of whom any of them were afraid of. It was magic, far-out, beautiful magic.\u201d \u20141969<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\u201cThe [Black] Panthers are righteous. What they\u2019re doing is actual, practical things. They got a free breakfast trip, and they\u2019re starting a free shoes thing \u2013 they\u2019re starting shoe factories and stuff like that. They\u2019re really doing things, man. They\u2019re into action, and that\u2019s something we can understand \u2019cause we\u2019re from a place where talk is cheap.\u201d \u20141970<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI thought we were experiencing a lucky vacation from the rest of consensual reality to try stuff out. I didn\u2019t have anything invested in the idea that the world was going to change. Our world certainly changed. Our part of it did what it was supposed to do, and it\u2019s continuing to do it, continuing to evolve. It\u2019s a process. I believe that if you open the door to the process, it tells you how to do it and it works. It\u2019s a life strategy that I think anyone can employ.\u201d \u20141994<\/em><\/p>\n\n\tOn Songwriting<\/strong>
I don\u2019t write them unless I absolutely have to. I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, \u2018Jeez, I feel great today. I think I\u2019ll write a song.\u2019 I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It\u2019s like pulling teeth. I don\u2019t enjoy it a bit.\u201d \u20141991<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t feel I have what it to takes to be a writer. I\u2019ve never been able to sustain an idea and get it down. It\u2019s hard for me to do it with music, too. My own preferences are for improvisation, for making it up as we along. The idea of picking, of eliminating possibilities by deciding, that\u2019s difficult for me.\u201d \u20141993<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\u201cRobert Hunter\u2019s really good about writing into my beliefs. He knows I\u2019m going to be battling with my intelligence about whether I can sing this lyric or whether I\u2019m going to feel like an idiot singing it.\u201d \u20141994<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t think of my ideas as being far-out, musically. What works for me is the emotional component, not the technical.\u201d \u20141993<\/em><\/p>\n\n\tOn Books<\/strong>
\u201cMy life would be life would be miserable if I didn\u2019t have those little chunks of Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot. I can\u2019t imagine life without that stuff. Those are the payoffs: the finest moments in music, the finest moments in movies. Great moments are part of what support you as an artist and a human.\u201d
\u20141991<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI fell in with a teacher who turned me on to the intellectual world. He said, \u2018Here, read this.\u2019 It was 1984<\/em> when I was 11 or 12. That was when I was turning on, so to speak, or became aware of a whole other world that was other than the thing you got in school, that you got in the movies and all that; something very different.\u201d \u20141972<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n
\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n
\n\tOn Concerts<\/strong>
\u201cI have a real problem with standing onstage. I feel like an idiot most of the time. It\u2019s like getting up in front of your senior class and making a speech. Basically, when you get up in front of a lot of people, you feel like an idiot. There\u2019s no getting around that.\u201d \u20141991<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\u201cHere we are getting into our 50s, and where are these people who keep coming to our shows coming from? What do they find so fascinating about these middle-aged bastards playing basically the same thing we\u2019ve always played? There must be a dearth of fun out there in America. Or adventure. Maybe we\u2019re one of the last adventures in America. I don\u2019t know.\u201d \u20141991<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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