Quotes by Jon Fishman - Page 1

Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Made
Sticks
Zeppelins
Drum
Led
Led Zeppelin
Pick
Zeppelin
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Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
America
Phish
Trends
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When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Cream
Eight
Seven
Zeppelins
Led
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin
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But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Attitude
Approach
Religious
Thinking
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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?
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Bob
Marley
Whole Life
Life Your Know
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I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Grateful
Mean
Mean People
People
Psychedelic
Bands
Compared
Grateful Dead
Sixties
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The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Grateful
Influence
Shot
Biggest Influence
Grateful Dead
Long Shot
Our Music
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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.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Age
Years
Young
Young Age
Life Age Me
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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.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Play
Thinking
Wanted
Play Music
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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.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Developing
Earth
Looks
Millions
Species
Years
Millions Of Years
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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.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Benevolent
Community
Stuff
Trying
Wanna
Basic
Communities
Participate
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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.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Choices
Thinking
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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.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Day To Day
People
Positively
Thinking
Trying
Freely
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Where were living we have a certain amount of our profit every year its like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Charity
Profit
Years
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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.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Charity
Profit
Aside
Percentage
Specifically
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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.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Good Life
Growing Up
Phish
Thinking
Life Good Great
Complain
Great Life
None
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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.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Bob
Marley
Messages
Particular
People
Spread
Throat
Effectively
Few People
Opinions
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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.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
America
Band
Scene
Seattle
Thrust
Nirvana
Same Thing
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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.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Men
Energy
Fun
Nutrition
Real
Real World
Stage
Have Fun
Problems
The Real World
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I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Band
Humour
Sake
Stem
Thinking
Want
Good Music Free
Good Band
Liking
Wanting
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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.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Dancer
Manipulate
Media
Musician
No Respect
Thinking
Madonna
Pro
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I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.
Jon Fishman / Drummer
Positive
Attitude
Bob
Conquer
Evil
Fighting
Marley
Play
Said
Single
Thinking
Positive Life Music
Attitude Positive Life
Fight
Generally
Positive Thing
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