Fishman Quotes & Sayings

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

Working at the pharmacy, you get the impression that there are no healthy people in the world. The normal condition is not health but illness. — Boris Fishman

They kissed slowly, the human traffic of First Avenue taking them into its indifferent arms, the city's special combination of curiosity and resentment. — Boris Fishman

Tell me about the war," he pressed cautiously. She smiled again and began, "Well . . ." The sentence ended there. Her tongue moved but no words emerged. He wanted to say, Tell me because I'd like to tell my grandchildren one day. Tell me because it happened to you, and so I should know. Tell me because it will bring me closer to you, and I want to be close to you. But he was fifteen years old, and he didn't know how to express thoughts like these. He only knew that he wanted to know. He could tell that she would tell him anything but anything, only if he could stand it please don't make her talk about that. And though he grasped how important it was for him to know - even if everyone in the family had acquiesced not to trouble Grandmother about it - he couldn't bring himself to make her. So he said to her: "Forget about the war. Tell me about how you and Grandfather fell in love. — Boris Fishman

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

The small stuff matters. The company that became the largest and most powerful in history isn't a military contractor or a car company. It isn't the result of savvy lobbyists in Washington, or the happenstance of controlling the supply of petroleum, or some kind of cabal that is beyond the understanding of ordinary people. The largest and most powerful company in history is built by each of us handing over three single dollar bills over and over again. — Charles Fishman

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

For all the folks whose job it was to be ready for [Hurricane] Katrina, but who weren't, from the Oval Office, right down the chain of command to the New Orleans police department, Wal-Mart was a vivid reproach. — Charles Fishman

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

When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin. — Jon Fishman

the left hand trembling in an eternal so-so. — Boris Fishman

When one of us alternates between time and space the rest of us drive by the airport. — Lisa Fishman

There's a lunar eclipse late Friday." Alisha said. "I hope everybody has their emotional body armor ready. Things are about to get intense. — Lee Fishman

The rehearsal of Grandfather's arguments came with wondrous facility to Slava. — Boris Fishman

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

A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper. — Boris Fishman

No one was dead, but her son would not call just to call. She'd had to enter intimate terms with this new understanding in her life, like an illness. — Boris Fishman

We want clean air, clean water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world. Yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions. — Charles Fishman

Wal-Mart benefits from the impression that globalization is some kind of unmanageable economic weather system out of the control of everyone, affecting all players with indifference, benefiting those who happened to be properly prepared. — Charles Fishman

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

Even though they, each for his own reason, did not wish to end the conversation, they had come to the end of what they could say in peace, and said goodbye. — Boris Fishman

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

Don't think OF the market. Think AS the market. — Michael Fishman

Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left. — Charles Fishman

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

Who better than Wal-Mart, after all, to make a kilowatt of electricity go twice as far, or a gallon of fuel move our trucks move three times the distance?" -Wal-Mart ad — Charles Fishman

I'm a homebody. I like having my parents around. — Michael Fishman

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude. — Jon Fishman

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

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

They had the lure of the Wal-Mart volume," [Jim] Wier said. "Once you get hooked on the volume, it's like getting hooked on cocaine. You've created a monster for yourself. — Charles Fishman

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

Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America. — Jon Fishman

How many companies can say that the amount of customers who use their services second most often, and spend the second most amount of money with them, are "very negative"? — Charles Fishman

If you know nothing about maintaining a [lawn] mower, Wal-Mart has helped make that ignorance irrelevant ... the lawn mowers at Wal-Mart are cheap enough to be disposable. — Charles Fishman

At the wheel, Hamid Abdul was trying not to watch them. Hamid, his immigrant brother. How Slava was exceeding his immigrant brief with this fine-skinned American specimen. See Slava take the milk of this American skin into his mouth, Hamid. Look at her fingers disappear from your rearview mirror. We are miscegenating with the natives, Hamid, we are assimilating, are we not? — Boris Fishman

It's very rewarding if I make a difference to a kid. — Michael Fishman

Can't I?" he said. "Did you know that they fertilized crops with human ash? After the war, the tomatoes were the size of an infant's head." He gave the words the same inflection that his grandfather did, only in English. They had a new but not unfamiliar sound on his tongue. He knew how to say them. — Boris Fishman

She breathed heavily, like a figure skater just off the ice. — Boris Fishman

I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point? — Jon Fishman

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

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

Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks. — Jon Fishman

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence. — Jon Fishman

Wal-Mart is so large, its reach so great, that it has created an ecosystem in which its suppliers and competitors, and their suppliers and competitors, and their customers, all operate. Wal-Mart sets the metabolism, it sets the rules, of that ecosystem. Wal-Mart has inexorably changed our expectations as shoppers - and the Wal-Mart effect also extends to consumers who never shop at Wal-Mart. Likewise, Wal-Mart has reshaped the companies that supply it - and it has also reset the pace and the competitive landscape even for companies that try to do business outside the Wal-Mart ecosystem. — Charles Fishman

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

Only weariness remained. It was a special kind of weariness that descended rarely, according to internal chemical regimens he did not understand. It made striving difficult, but also falsehood. — Boris Fishman

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life. — Jon Fishman

("It is a blessing to die in the natural order." - Sofia Gelman.) — Boris Fishman

Every time you see the Wal-Mart smiley face, whistling and knocking down the prices, somewhere there's a factory worker being kicked in the stomach. - Sherrie Ford — Charles Fishman

Sometimes cheap is inexpensive. Sometimes it's cheap. — Charles Fishman

They took a meandering route through the neighborhood, louche and gentrified all at once. — Boris Fishman