"That's going to blow you mind right out of the window and halfway to Hawaii!!"
"That's the greatest example of collective improvisation in the history of western culture!!"
"This contains the moment when the universe as we know it would irrevocably change its course forever and completely!!"
"Music is sort of the last pure thing on earth. We've kind of always seen it as a thing where it's an escape. You can go with the music, and lose yourself."
"Everyone in our band becomes naked to one another during jams. You can clearly hear what each of us is thinking. It's like having the most intimate conversation imaginable, and it just becomes more so the longer we're together"
“Music, to me is all about energy itself. I think that when I go on stage, I feel a combination of different feelings - anticipation, excitement.”
“Its so much fun to lose your mind. Music itself alters your mind. The thing about music is that its the only place where you can totally lose your mind.”
“Music's sort of this transcendent thing. Its like the surfing thing. You're floating around out there and this wave comes along. And you can catch it and ride it. It can thrash you violently, but if you let go of your fear and everything and just go with it, its gonna give you the ride of your life.”
“I feel like a vehicle. I'm not even creating the music. Its bigger than that. Carlos [Santana] used the analogy with the hose. He watched one of our sets. When we came off stage, he said he had been envisioning the audience as a sea of flowers and the music was the water, and we were the hose.”
– Trey Anastasio
"We're already successful, and on our terms... Not everybody needs MTV. We definetly don't, and I'm proud of that."
"I was never heavily into drugs. My drug is music."
"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
"The music keeps changing and morphing all the time, as if it were this tightly wound ball of energy we were passing around among us."
“...we've always wanted to be a danceable band. We've always liked that people come and dance to our music."
“We've been going this long, and we all are really comfortable with each other, and who each other is, and what each other does -- not to say we don't have our differences, but we all understand that for us to do what we want to do, which is play music, we sort of need the others, and that none of us would really be able to do any of this without any of the others, so there is a dependency there that we appreciate.”
-Page McConnell
“...I just think about getting the groove to go, and the flow, and I just do whatever I can do to let that happen.”
-Mike Gordon
More to come...