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When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

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

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.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.

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.

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.

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

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.

We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one.

If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!

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.

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

Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!

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

What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.

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

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

My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot.

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

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

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