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
Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you’ve got to run like an antelope out of control! – Trey Anastasio
I’ve always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal. – Trey Anastasio
What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I’ve received. – Trey Anastasio
Things don’t go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you’re gonna be. – Trey Anastasio
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. – 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
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
I’m not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go. – Trey Anastasio
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
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam. – Trey Anastasio
I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime. – 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
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
When you’re a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness. – Trey Anastasio
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
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
The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward. – 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 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
