Phil Lesh Quotes

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.'

Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

When you're doing something every week, it's kind of routine.

You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

Harmony is boring.

Sure, I miss some things about the stage. The thing I like is the immediacy. But then I complain, 'I gotta do the same part for six months.'

You can't get tied into your past. It's not fun for me. You can't just keep doing the same material forever. Some people just play the hits, and it's the same show every night. They're happy to do that. I personally am not.

We don't get to get swept up, because we have to start over every day at 8 o'clock.

I go from day to day and game to game.

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

I kind of just dress the same way no matter where I am.

I don't like to do the same songs every night for a week. I just... it's boring and tiring and frustrating basically.

I think anyone that's in the same building or the same place for a really long period of time, some parts of it become routine.

The rain, it raineth every day.

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.

I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

Always the same thing.

To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.

The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.