Jeff Ament Quotes

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• Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.
• I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.
• I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula.
• With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part,…
• This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses…
• When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now…
• It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started…
• Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.
• I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.
• Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.
• I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.
• I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.
• I feel like in a lot of ways I can relate to the fans, just being a fan of music myself.
• We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.
• Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.
• I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.
• It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the…
• It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much…
• Our first record didn't come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to…
• That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.

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