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" I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal. "
Trey Anastasio
Together
Experience
Working Together
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" I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric. "
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" Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be. "
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" The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward. "
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" I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime. "
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" 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. "
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" We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot. "
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" Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever! "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont. "
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" 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. "
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You
Music
" Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam. "
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Feel
Age
Always
" 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. "
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" The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly. "
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" What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received. "
Trey Anastasio
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" 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. "
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Silence
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I Am
" 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. "
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Open
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" When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness. "
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" I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go. "
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" I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '. "
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Going
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Dreams
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" When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees. "
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City
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" 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. "
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Beginning
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Time
" If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards. "
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One Thing
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