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When and Why did Phish Breakup?

"We had to stop Phish
to preserve and respect it."
- Trey

"There comes a point where
everybody's got an opinion, and they're all valid.
You have to do what's true to your heart."
- Trey, 6/5/04, Billboard

"...I wanted to tell people, 'Hey, it's OK.'
This was an attempt to stay healthy
and keep playing for another 30 years."
- Trey to Charlie Rose, c.1/2/03

"I have a variety of feelings,
and there's certainly sadness in there.
But I have no doubts."
- Trey to the New York Times

"Phish has nothing left to prove."
- New York Times

"When the day's come and gone, You know we all ride on."
- Trey, in the opening lines of "Shine"

"The existence of a 'todo list' without
a correspondindly robust 'stop doing' list
demonstrates a lck of discipline. ...
The question isn't what you do,
but what you stop doing."
- Jim Collins

A real decision is measured by the fact
that you've taken a new action.
If there's no action,
you haven't truly decided.
-- Tony Robbins

Things will not be necessarily continuous.
The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous ought not to be characterized as a pause.
There will be some things that people will see. There will be some things that people won't see.
And life goes on. -- Donald Rumsfeld, 10/12/01 DOD news briefing

"When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurling to the earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor." - Despair design "" - Despair design



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