Quotes About Phish

#1. 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

#2. Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path - and that person could even be you.

Bryant McGill

#3. I think Phish will come back. I just think it's time for a breather.

Les Claypool

#4. To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and tent city or whatever it's called.

Joseph Bruce

#5. I want just the flash of its spirit.

Constantin Brancusi

#6. Every Betrayal begins with trust-Phish
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today-James Dean
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live-Anonymous

Brian Jacques

#7. Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.

Jon Fishman

#8. You don't have to get high or need drugs to experience the Juggalo freshness. But you do need to get high to experience the whole Phish freshness.

Joseph Bruce

#9. The only difference between a futile madman and an effective tyrant is power and will.

Sheri S. Tepper

#10. I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

Matisyahu

#11. Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note.

Trey Anastasio

#12. The second time I took acid, I watched myself in the mirror for nine hours. What I realized, when I stared, was that my face looked exactly the same when I cried as when I laughed. After awhile I couldn't tell which I was doing. Relief was just pain inside out.

Jerry Stahl

#13. I'm no fan of jam bands. You can take your Gov't Mule, your Phish, your Rusted Root. But Derek Trucks is a special musician - perhaps the greatest slide guitarist who ever lived.

Darin Strauss

#14. The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

#15. Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.

Zac Goldsmith

#16. When you're there, I sleep lengthwise.
And when you're gone, I sleep diagonal in my bed.

Phish

#17. Marijuana is a gateway drug that can lead to awful things, like Phish getting back together.

Stephen Colbert

#18. 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

#19. I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.

John Knox

#20. Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum.

Douglas Carswell

#21. Each betrayal begins with trust.

Phish

#22. There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.

Mark Goddard

#23. 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

#24. Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.

James Whistler

#25. It was with much satisfaction that I recognized the wisdom of having told this candid gentleman, in the beginning, that my name was Smith.

Mark Twain

#26. I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!

Sharon Swan

#27. 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

#28. Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

Jimmy Buffett

#29. Within the space of a few shows you can hear the band morph between their various identities as savvy arena rockers, intense starship pilots, vaudeville nostalgists, modest American folkies, boundary-dissolving improvisers, roots-conscious spiritualists, and mind-fucking pranksters.

Richard Gehr

#30. Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

Page McConnell

#31. He let out a short laugh. You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe?

James Dashner

#32. Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself.

Alan Cohen

#33. Tax day was yesterday. And marijuana growers are complaining that they can't write off a single expense thanks to federal laws. Well, apparently someone tried to claim the Phish tour as his home office and that's not going to happen.

Conan O'Brien

#34. I am excited to get on tour, if I'm speaking to the Phish fans. I can't wait.

Trey Anastasio

#35. I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

Chuck Palahniuk

#36. Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.

Sharon Jones