Pearl Jam Quotes
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No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.
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I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.
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I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.
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After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
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We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.
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I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.
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I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
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I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.
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This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.
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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
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I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.
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Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
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I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it.
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If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.
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The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.
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If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her.
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My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.
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My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.
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I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock.
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It's not a bad time to be me.
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At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.
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After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
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A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.
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Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.