Jon Fishman Quotes

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• For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
• I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.
• 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…
• 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…
• Where were living we have a certain amount of our profit every year its like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that…
• But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.
• I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?
• I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.
• When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people…
• When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.
• 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…
• 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…

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