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.
Trey Anastasio

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

Equality implies individuality.
Trey Anastasio

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

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.
Trey Anastasio

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

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.
Trey Anastasio

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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