If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
JERRY GARCIAI Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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