Every Silver Lining Has A Touch Of

Music Goes Way Back Before Language Does. And Music Is Like The Key To A Whole Spiritual Existence Which This Society Doesn't Even Talk About. We Know It's There. The Grateful Dead Plays At Religious Services Essentially. We Play At The Religious Services Of The New Age. Everybody Gets High, And That's What It's All About Really. Getting High Is A Lot More Real Than Listening To A Politician. You Can Think That Getting High Actually Did Happen - That You Danced, And Got Sweaty, And Carried On. It Really Did Happen. I Know When It Happens. I Know It When It Happens Every Time.

Somebody Has To Do Something, And It's Just Incredibly Pathetic That It Has To Be Us.

We're Not Uncomfortable With It, And We've Already Been Through Enough Of The Music Business Where I'm Not Really Worried That Commercial Success Is Going To In Some Way - We're Already Past Saving, You Know What I Mean? It's Too Late For Us.

You Have To Get Past The Idea That Music Has To Be One Thing. To Be Alive In America Is To Hear All Kinds Of Music Constantly: Radio, Records, Churches, Cats On The Street, Everywhere Music. And With Records, The Whole History Of Music Is Open To Everyone Who Wants To Hear It.

We're Like Licorice. Not Everybody Likes Licorice, But The People Who Like Licorice Really Like Licorice.