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 GARCIAYou don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
JERRY GARCIA