Trey Anastasio Quotes

Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.

I still love 'The Cure' more than almost any other band. But they were really, truly like the first band that I really loved and felt was mine, you know. At a pivotal time in my life when I was 13, 14 years old.

I'm still obsessed with Kiss. I'm still obsessed with Van Halen. I guess we don't change that much from being kids. Either we don't change that much, or we just have really good taste.

One thing that scares me a little bit is that I want people to like my music, but I think a lot of what I like about my own music are these references to things that people don't share nostalgia with me on.

Growing up, I heard nothing but the best music.

I don't really worship the album 'Transformer.' It's not the best thing that Lou Reed has done.

When I was in my formative years, I rejected Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, and Dean Martin. I now realise they were all great artists, but at the time, as a young man, you have to clear the decks.

I think we all love the music we listened to as kids the most.

My father had lived in the States in the 1960s for a while and came to love American Songbook material. Even today, he sometimes recognizes singers that I never even heard of, which is beautiful and inspiring.

It frustrated me at college that all the acts in the Top 10 were like The Moody Blues and Phil Collins. It was like why did we get stuck with the last generation's music, why can't we have our own?

It was funny because right before the whole band broke up, like, we were seven months' pregnant, so my life was going to transition anyway, whether the band was continuing or not.

My brain has been programmed to listen to music a certain way because of the Beatles.

I have lots of memories of Zeppelin. And I know the joy it gives fans when I tell them stories. I see their faces light up.

Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.

When I was a bit younger, I loved Rufus Wainwright - just the fact that he existed.

I've loved music all my life.

Dad had four world records, and they happened to be Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Ali Farka Toure. I tried singing like these people, and it didn't work.

From a young age I was really into pop music because I had these two older sisters who were into it, and I wanted to be like them. They liked Wham! and so I was really into them too.

We've become an underground thing for kids, because we never got the love our peers got back in the day. Kids are loving discovering us, and I'm happy to be that band.