One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.

Always ask for advice but never take it.

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell

The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.

Writing is like breathing for my soul.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and tent city or whatever it's called.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

I don't like going away from my children.

How capable are we of bringing about authentic change if we don't have voices from the margins?