Trey Anastasio Quotes

• 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.

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• When you’re a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

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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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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Myself

• 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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  Tags in Time, Memories

• What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I’ve received.

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  Tags in Moment, Thought

• We’re never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!

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  Tags in Forever

• We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Party, Continuity

• 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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  Topics in Family, Life

  Tags in Music, Feel

• 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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  Tags in Things, Forever

• 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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  Tags in Excitement

• The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

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  Tags in World, Music, Folk

• The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

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  Topics in Sacrifice

  Tags in Biggest

• 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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  Tags in Feels, Band

• Swing will never sound as good as it did in the ’40s.

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  Tags in Never

• Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you’ve got to run like an antelope out of control!

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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Control

• Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it’s still on a high note.

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  Tags in Run

• My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

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  Topics in Life

• 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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  Topics in Family, Life

  Tags in Believe

• 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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  Tags in Time, Musicians, Culture

Trey Anastasio (39)

Birth:	26th August, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Guitarist, Musician, Orchardist

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