Stone Gossard Quotes
We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.
Quotes to Explore
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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I hope that people can relate to my music, it's very relatable, it's very fun, it's very honest. It's very, very, honest. I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics. I'm sure they'll learn about a new side to me, it's all very honest, I don't put on any... there's no fake-ness to it, it's very real and I hope my fans can relate to it and that it's enjoyable for all ages.
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For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
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We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.
