Jon Fishman Quotes

I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?

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

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.

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.

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.

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

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

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

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 we set aside specifically for charity things.

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.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

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.

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.

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

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.