Stone Gossard Quotes

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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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  Play, Fans, Jam

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• My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

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  Knowing, Not Knowing, Methodology

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• I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

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  Fitness, Self Esteem, Cancer

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• Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

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  Cutting, Choices, Way

  "From Ticketmaster To Trees". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. October 17, 2008.

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• The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a bunch of new songs. Learning how to dance, or drum, or to swing my body in a new way is the fundamental way I find a new riff. Because when you learn to swing your body in a new way, you begin to swing with your instrument differently.

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  Song, Writing, Swings

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• It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

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  Personality, Balance, Jam

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• We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

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  Pearls, May, Jam

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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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  Fun, Rain, Car

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• Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

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  Magic, Kind

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• Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

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  Thinking, Car, Holland

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• It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

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  Water, Want, Instinct

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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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  Parent, Band, Patterns

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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.

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  Country, Simplicity, Degrees

  "From Ticketmaster to Trees: An Interview With Pearl Jam Guitarist Stone Gossard". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. October 17, 2008.

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• I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.

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  Song, Writing, Long

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• Raising awareness, changing the marketplace, effecting spiritual change - whatever it is that you decide is your thing, go for it.

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  Spiritual, Awareness, Marketplace

  "From Ticketmaster to Trees: An Interview With Pearl Jam Guitarist Stone Gossard". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. October 17, 2008.

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• Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.

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  Real, Thinking, World

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• I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like.

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  Thinking, Swings, Kind

  "Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard walks through his band's big hits and deep cuts". Interview with Josh Modell, music.avclub.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

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  Song, Impact, Play

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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.

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  Winter, Vanity, Long

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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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  Thinking, Years, People

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• I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

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  Guitar, Wanted

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• I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

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  Wheels, Cards, Bananas

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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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  Moments, Turns, Related

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• It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.

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  Long, May, Singers

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• It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.

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  Real, Years, Comforting

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