Musician Quotes

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

I've been overweight all my life.

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.

Did I do all right?

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.

When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.

We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

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

People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.

Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.

Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.

Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

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.

I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.

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.

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.