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All Quotes by author - Trey Anastasio
" 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. "
Time
Alone
Guitar
" As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music. "
Enjoy
You
Music
" Equality implies individuality. "
Equality
Individuality
Implies
" I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar. "
Rock
Absolutely
Guitar
" 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. "
Always
You
Writing
" 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. "
Silence
Fall
I Am
" I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '. "
Going
Enjoy
Life
" 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. "
Point
Going
Wait
" I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime. "
Lifetime
Great
Myself
" If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards. "
One Thing
You
Back
" I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go. "
Trying
Rug
You
" 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. "
Open
Internet
Music
" It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont. "
Together
Amazing
Great
" I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric. "
Effect
Understand
Step
" I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition. "
Bit
Tradition
Loved
" I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal. "
Together
Experience
Working Together
" 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. "
Happy
Wife
Band
" 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. "
Character
Journey
Line
" Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam. "
Feel
Age
Always
" 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. "
Beginning
Scenery
Time
" 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. "
Broken
Police
Morning
" My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol. "
Complete
Sick
My Life
" Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note. "
High
Now
Run
" Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control! "
Run
Soul
You
" Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s. "
Swing
Did
Good
" 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. "
Out
People
Seeing
" The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward. "
Moving Forward
Sacrifice
Me
" The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly. "
Folk Music
Fast
Folk
" 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. "
Done
Years
Way
" Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be. "
Change
Accept
You
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