Jon Fishman

Jon Fishman
Jon Fishmanis an American drummer best known for his work with the band Phish. He is credited with co-writing 19 Phish originals, 8 of them as a solo credit...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth19 February 1965
CountryUnited States of America
community trying stuff
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.
american-musician amount aside certain percentage year
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.
american-musician biggest dead music shot
The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.
people bob messages
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.
grateful mean people
I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.
attitude fighting thinking
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.
years charity profit
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.
religious attitude thinking
But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.
thinking play wanted
I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.
thinking want sake
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.
growing-up good-life thinking
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.
thinking choices
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.
sticks zeppelins made
Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.
years earth facts
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.