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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  Topics in Business, Goal

  Tags in Music

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Intention

• 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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  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Hear

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wait

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

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Myself

• 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.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Wife

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

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Myself, Lifetime

• 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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  Topics in Power

  Tags in Possibility

• I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understanding

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

• 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

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journey, Character

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discovering

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

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  Topics in Experience, Goal

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Inspiring

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Music

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Musicians, Culture

• 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

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Run

• 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

  Topics in Family, Life

  Tags in Music, Feel

Trey Anastasio (39)

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

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