Trey Anastasio famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Birthday #Age #World
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

#Air #Joy #Feelings
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.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Anniversary #Wedding #Children
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

#Years #Feelings #Way
We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Adventure #Want #Spontaneous
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.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Player #Community #Musician
Creativity is the antidote to destruction.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Creativity #Destruction #Antidote
It's like you're surfing... The same wave that can be a source of pain can be a beautiful flowing grace and source of power. It's all a matter of how you respond to it.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Beautiful #Pain #Surfing
There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all at the same level - the highest level that you strive to get to as a musician. Me and my friends - we'll all be long dead, people will still be trying to dig into what Jerry Garcia did.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Long #People #Trying
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 #Doe
What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Squares #Circles #Drawing
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.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Real #Mean #Long
Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul. You've got to run like an antelope, out of control.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Running #Soul #Gears
Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time.'
-- Trey Anastasio

#Spiritual #Heart #Boys
My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Sick #Alcohol #Drug
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

#Dream #Blessing #Play
I am excited to get on tour, if I'm speaking to the Phish fans. I can't wait.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Waiting #Fans #Excited
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

#Wall #Fall #Feet
I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Rocks #Guitar
Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Grateful #Musical #Important
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.
-- Trey Anastasio

#Thinking #Internet #Possibility
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 #Musical
If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!
-- Trey Anastasio

#Trying #Meat #Alive

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