Quotes from Trey Anastasio

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.