We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we’re not like benevolent- it’s pretty basic. – Jon Fishman
When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don’t want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems. – Jon Fishman
You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we’ve been knocking them off at like a hundred a day. – Jon Fishman
I think it’s like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we’re free to pretty much do what we want. – Jon Fishman
I think that Phish has been a band, we’ve all had- I’ve had a great life growing up and everybody in my band’s had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all. – Jon Fishman
I don’t know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley – what’s the point? – Jon Fishman
Where we’re living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it’s like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things. – Jon Fishman
I think that you really don’t have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better. – Jon Fishman
You’re not there to spread any particular- if you’re Bob Marley you’re there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone’s throat. – Jon Fishman
I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands. – Jon Fishman
Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America. – Jon Fishman
The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren’t by a long shot the biggest influence. – Jon Fishman
For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life. – Jon Fishman
People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn’t as free… I definitely think we’re positively orientated. – Jon Fishman
I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you’re there to play music. – Jon Fishman
Madonna is a pro. I don’t like her and have no respect for her but- I don’t think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her. – Jon Fishman
I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley’s attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn’t go to play, he went to conquer. – Jon Fishman
