Zitat des Tages von Trey Anastasio:
My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.
I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.
Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note.
We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot.
I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.
I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.
There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.
I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.
My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.
Equality implies individuality.
We always felt like we were throwing a party for our friends, regardless of the size or the place, because we actually were throwing a party for our friends. We've always had a very tight knit community.
We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!
I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.
Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!
I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.
I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.
If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.
Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.
Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.
When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.
I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.
I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.
When Phish broke up, I made some comment about how I'm not gonna go around playing 'You Enjoy Myself' for the rest of my life.
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.
I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.
I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.
Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.
The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.
I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.
I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point.
Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.
Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.
What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.
It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.
The band feels loose in all the right ways, and it's just so cool looking out and seeing all of these people that I haven't seen in a while.