Author Profile
Trey Anastasio
1964 • American • Musician
39
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Showing 39 quotesIf there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.— Trey Anastasio
I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.— Trey Anastasio
The band feels loose in all the right ways, and it's just so cool looking out and seeing all of these people that I haven't seen in a while.— Trey Anastasio
The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.— Trey Anastasio
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
When Phish broke up, I made some comment about how I'm not gonna go around playing 'You Enjoy Myself' for the rest of my life.— 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
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
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
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 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 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
The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.— 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