Trey Anastasio Quotes

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

Wedding, Happy, Wife

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

Time, Greatest, Feelings

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

Music, Age, Young

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

Year, Three, Stop

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

Happen, Thought, Moment

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

Experience, Together, Goal

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

Since, Backwards, Hiatus

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

Feeling, Everything, Done

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

Life, Friendship, Dreams

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

Time, Alone, Guitar

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

Music, Long, Real

Equality implies individuality.
Trey Anastasio

Equality, Implies

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

Love, Rock, Guitar

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

Writing, Everything, Hear

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

Silence, Wait, Fall

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

Play, Wait, Last

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

Life, Enjoy, Country

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

Great, Lucky, Worked

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

Music, Power, Exciting

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

Understand, Song, Step

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

Music, Trying, Tell

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

Family, Loved, Bit

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, Everything, Learned

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

Music, Great, Amazing

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.
Trey Anastasio

Life, Family, Morning

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Nationality: American

Born: September 30, 1964

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