Quotes By 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.

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.

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.

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

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 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.

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

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

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.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Equality implies individuality.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

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.

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

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.

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

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.

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.

Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

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.