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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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The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.
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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.
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For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
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Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.
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Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.
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When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.
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But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.
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When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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