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"Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America."
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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."

"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."

"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."

"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
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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?"

"Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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