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Jon Fishman

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

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

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

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"Music fills the emptiness of our souls with the indescribable universal ecstasy"

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"I never listened to country music growing up."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it."

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"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

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"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

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"Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days."

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"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."
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"Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America."
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"I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands."
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"Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks."
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"I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?"
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