Pearl Jam Quotes
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You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.
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Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?
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It was a difficult road for What Is This. Their business did not come easy. Eventually, the lack of success forced different directions.
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It's always push and pull with a record company.
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And we're always excited to expose our music to new people to see if we can have longevity and a long career. It's heading that way.
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Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a band situation.
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I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.
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I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine
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It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
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I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.
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I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.
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I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.
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It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've achieved as far as just spending time with people you love, and doing things like painting.
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The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball. Less people killed. It wouldn't have affected the world on a planetary level. Sure, there would have been little things. There would have been scandals and kind of numbskull things here and there.
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I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.
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I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.
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So much energy comes out of concerts sometimes, especially good ones that are really moving. And that energy, no matter how great the show is, it dissipates within two weeks or a month.
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I had a long talk with Bruce Springsteen on a rooftop during the Vote for Change tour (in 2004). And it boiled down to this: That guy you used to be, he’s still in the car. He’ll always be in the car. Just don’t let him drive. He might be shouting out directions. But whatever you do, don’t let him get behind the wheel.
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Society, you're a crazy breed.
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Music's at its best when it has a purpose.
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It's understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record creates a healthy opportunity to process some of these emotions rather than deny them.
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We had a song called "Reach Out" that almost got us to the next level. During that time my wife and I made a decision to leave Los Angeles.
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I always loose a little weight on the road, so I constantly have to be on top of my nutrition and hydration.
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It's a mystery to me We have a greed with which we have agreed You think you have to want more than you need Until you have it all you won't be free When you want more than you have You think you need And when you think more than you want Your thoughts begin to bleed I think I need to find a bigger place 'Cause when you have more than you think You need more space Society, you're a crazy breed I hope you're not lonely without me Society, crazy and deep I hope you're not lonely without me.
