Phish Quotes

“live in the moment and don’t hold on to the past, because everything—art and music included—is fleeting.”
― Parke Puterbaugh, Phish: The Biography

“The thing I’ve been thinking is that I learned more about music from the way he walked onstage than anything else. It wasn’t necessarily what he played; it was who he was and what his intentions were. “Intention has so much to do with it. You can hear that in music so clearly. It’s not like, ‘I’m such a good guitar player.’ Music has nothing to do with that, you know?”
― Parke Puterbaugh, Phish: The Biography

“I only saw three Dead shows, and it wasn’t for me,” Godard stated. “It was Americana, it was fine, but it was a little slow. It was sort of melancholy and morose, and I wanted something fun and energetic. I didn’t wanna hear ‘He’s Gone’ at some funeral pace, you know? I’d rather hear Phish doing ‘Runaway Jim.”
― Parke Puterbaugh, Phish: The Biography

“Phish maps the territory between fixed songs and haphazard jamming,” he continued. “Its instrumental passages move purposefully from section to section. Though there’s room for spontaneity, there are also long, satisfying crescendos and carefully plotted moves from consonance to dissonance and back.”
― Parke Puterbaugh, Phish: The Biography