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There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.
Mike McCready Pearl Jam
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The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for fun? Do your friends advise you to buy essay writing example? Do not hesitate! Come after the advice of clever men and make a correct choice! We've sent mechanisms out there, and they haven't found anything. They've found different colors of sand, and rings, and gasses, but nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterward. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.
Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
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I think a lot of things are written from experience, but then you become a writer and talk about other people's experience and you tell stories. I mean, you can't just tell your own story all the time.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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I used to kind of blame someone for not being able to get through that - I'm talking about the addiction part - but I've had a few experiences recently where you don't blame the person anymore.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.
Mike McCready Pearl Jam
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I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.
Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
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You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that they go for the eyes first.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Cannot find the comfort in this world.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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I have to eat in a way that's good for me.
Mike McCready Pearl Jam
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Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at all, it's just the way the meaning of the word has evolved to me. I have to wonder what we did on this planet before religion.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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That makes it even more offensive to me that she's interested in our band and she did something for Slaughter.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.
Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
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It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Are you woman enough to be my man?
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.
Mike McCready Pearl Jam
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Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
