Jeff Ament Quotes
We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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I love New York. Love it.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
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I want to work with Cherry Jones.
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
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People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't.
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When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.
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I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.
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I'm not going to waste time or energy spent on something I can't control.
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We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.
