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" I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric. "
Trey Anastasio
Effect
Understand
Step
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" I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar. "
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Rock
Absolutely
Guitar
" 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. "
Trey Anastasio
Done
Years
Way
" 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. "
Trey Anastasio
Life
Enjoy
You
" 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. "
Trey Anastasio
Time
Alone
Guitar
" The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward. "
Trey Anastasio
Moving Forward
Sacrifice
Me
" Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s. "
Trey Anastasio
Swing
Did
Good
" We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot. "
Trey Anastasio
Party
Outside
Band
" My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol. "
Trey Anastasio
Complete
Sick
My Life
" I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition. "
Trey Anastasio
Bit
Tradition
Loved
" 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. "
Trey Anastasio
Together
Music
Goal
" 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. "
Trey Anastasio
Point
Going
Wait
" 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. "
Trey Anastasio
Character
Journey
Line
" Equality implies individuality. "
Trey Anastasio
Equality
Individuality
Implies
" 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. "
Trey Anastasio
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. "
Trey Anastasio
Silence
Fall
I Am
" 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. "
Trey Anastasio
Beginning
Scenery
Time
" 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. "
Trey Anastasio
Dreams
Family
Friendship
" I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal. "
Trey Anastasio
Together
Experience
Working Together
" If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards. "
Trey Anastasio
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. "
Trey Anastasio
Trying
Rug
You
" Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note. "
Trey Anastasio
High
Now
Run
" 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. "
Trey Anastasio
Community
Place
Friends
" I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '. "
Trey Anastasio
Going
Enjoy
Life
" Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control! "
Trey Anastasio
Run
Soul
You
" I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime. "
Trey Anastasio
Lifetime
Great
Myself
" 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. "
Trey Anastasio
Out
People
Seeing
" 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. "
Trey Anastasio
Broken
Police
Morning
" It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont. "
Trey Anastasio
Together
Amazing
Great
" Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be. "
Trey Anastasio
Change
Accept
You
" We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever! "
Trey Anastasio
Never
Year
Three