Jerry Quotes by Trey Anastasio

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

— Trey Anastasio

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

— Trey Anastasio

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

— 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…

— Trey Anastasio

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

— Trey Anastasio

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

— Trey Anastasio

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

— 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…

— Trey Anastasio

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

— Trey Anastasio

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

— Trey Anastasio

When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I…

— Trey Anastasio

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

— 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

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

— Trey Anastasio

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on…

— Trey Anastasio