Pearl Jam Quotes
- All Quotes
- News Quotes
-
I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.
-
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
-
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
-
Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.
-
I've had a lot of typewriters that I've had relationships with; one still has a piece of masking tape that says "$8" on it. I love working on them. I can't fix a computer or a car, but I can fix a typewriter. I like them because you can write on them late at night, depending on what you're fortifying yourself with, and the next morning you can still figure what you wrote.
-
The love received is the love that is saved.
-
It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
-
So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
-
I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
-
Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
-
'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
-
We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
-
The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
-
People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
-
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead.
-
Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
-
I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.
-
I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
-
I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.
-
I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
-
With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
-
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
-
We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.
-
I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.