Well there’s a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it’s humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I’ve got to do is I’ve got to stop expecting it of myself.
Your pot laws are great! But your gun laws are even better!
Yeah, we’ll play that. You want fries with that?
If ‘little George Dubya Bush’ wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.
Singing someone else’s songs is like keeping your clothes on.
We’re not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We’re trying to be good musicians.
One thing you might suggest to a young band is don’t get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.
I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.
This is still a young man’s game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock’n’roll.
I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, ‘We ain’t Pearl Jam.’ That’s back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we’re still charging less than them.
I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I’m trying to write. It’s become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals.
I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, “Hmmm, this has some possibilities.”
Worship the music, not the musicians.
You feel that no matter what’s said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.
I’m having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I’m a little exhausted by the process.
I’m Eddie Vedder and I sing. I do.
I’m making music for music’s sake, and I have an audience I’m proud of.
Isn’t Timbaland a make of shoe? It’s a producer? I don’t know who that is. Oh well.
No music is going to stop the war. What’s going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.
At some point, when you read about this factual information that comes out in The New Zealand Herald and it’s barely mentioned in The New York Times, then I think you’ve got to question where this is being manipulated, and where the filters are.