Stone Gossard famous quotes

We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.
-- Stone Gossard

#Play #Loyal #Pearls

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

#Pearls #May #Jam

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.
-- Stone Gossard

#Magic #Kind

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.
-- Stone Gossard

#Fitness #Self Esteem #Cancer

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.
-- Stone Gossard

#Water #Want #Instinct

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

#Thinking #Car #Holland

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.
-- Stone Gossard

#Lawyer #Advertising #Planets

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

#Knowing #Not Knowing #Methodology

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

#Cutting #Choices #Way

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

#Spiritual #Awareness #Raising Awareness

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.
-- Stone Gossard

#Country #Simplicity #Degrees

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.
-- Stone Gossard

#Thinking #Swings #Kind

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.
-- Stone Gossard

#Personality #Balance #Jam

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.
-- Stone Gossard

#Real #Years #Comforting

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.
-- Stone Gossard

#Song #Play #Impact

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.
-- Stone Gossard

#Thinking #Years #People

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.
-- Stone Gossard

#Long #Singers #May

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.
-- Stone Gossard

#Cities #Feelings #Enjoyable

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.
-- Stone Gossard

#Moments #Turns

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.
-- Stone Gossard

#Real #Thinking #Band

As a songwriter, it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.
-- Stone Gossard

#Stuff #Kind #Clarity

Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs.
-- Stone Gossard

#Important #Growing #Dave

Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.
-- Stone Gossard

#Struggle #Fighting #Years

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

#Song #Writing #Long

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.
-- Stone Gossard

#Way #Kind

I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.
-- Stone Gossard

#Play #Excuse #Projects

I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.
-- Stone Gossard

#Jobs #Rocks #Band

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.
-- Stone Gossard

#Fun #Rain #Car

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.
-- Stone Gossard

#School #Firsts #Hills

I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock.
-- Stone Gossard

#Thinking #Rocks #People

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.
-- Stone Gossard

#Guitar #Wanted

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

#Bananas #Wheels #Cards

That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up.
-- Stone Gossard

#Done #Sake #Energy

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.
-- Stone Gossard

#Thinking #Cities #City Streets

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.
-- Stone Gossard

#Winter #Vanity #Long

I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.
-- Stone Gossard

#Running #Thinking #Cities

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.
-- Stone Gossard

#Running #Car #Errands

I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more.
-- Stone Gossard

#Exercise #Cities #Flow