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.
JERRY GARCIASomebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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