I would love for people to enjoy our music and have feelings from it. That's all I can hope for. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
I still believe guitars will be around as long as there's rock music. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
Jeff Ament, the bass player, plays basketball. He ultimately wants to do music, but he's really good at basketball, too. We all… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
After Mad Season, I started writing my own music for Pearl Jam and brought it in. 'Given To Fly' came out of… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
A song kind of comes out of anywhere. A song will come out of the sky, or an idea, or walking around,… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
There's a Kiss through-line to a lot of the music that came out of Seattle, and it hasn't been talked about a… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
Playing music was something I wanted to do since I was 11 years old, so when we went on tour and started… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
In the early days of Pearl Jam, we were caught up in such a whirlwind that I was just trying to keep… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
Reason why we've lasted so long is we write music; we get very intense. We go away from each other, do our… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons.… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
We came out of a very provincial city that was not very supportive of music, and we had to do our own… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
Duff McKagen's been a dear friend of mind for a long time, and he's a Seattlelite. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
Playing onstage, I'm always aware of where the bathrooms are. When Crohn's hits, I have to run, or it won't be pretty. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
As a band, we just don't tolerate any kind of abuse or intolerance of any kind of LGBT people by any kind of government. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
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… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
