The Best Pearl Jam Quotes

#1. We're super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans ... who really want to come & see us play.

Stone Gossard

#2. And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

St. Vincent

#3. My life was over, finished, and I'd never seen Pearl Jam play live

Kristen Ashley

#4. So far away and yet you feel so close.

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#5. The guy we want to get is the guy who did the Aerosmith album which is coming out in two days, and a Chili Peppers album, and a couple of Pearl Jam albums. We want to get someone that will sort of bring out the high energy aspect more than the dreaminess that was on the last album.

Mike Gordon

#6. When something's lost I wanna fight to get it back again

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#7. 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, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

Jeff Ament

#8. Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

Eddie Vedder

#9. Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle.

Jon Gruden

#10. If you hate something, don't you do it too?

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#11. And it's not that Pearl Jam was any more amazing than anyone else. I think we just liked who we were when they were who they were.

Caprice Crane

#12. People wonder if the Pearl Jam audience will get into The Buzzcocks. Eddie Vedder is a big Buzzcocks fan. He used to come to see Buzzcocks before he was in Pearl Jam. If his fans like what he likes, I guess that they might like The Buzzcocks.

Steve Diggle

#13. 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

#14. The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

Michael Buble

#15. 'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar.

Mark Salling

#16. I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

Kurt Cobain

#17. Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

Jeff Ament

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

Stone Gossard

#19. I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.

Ellie Goulding

#20. A half-dozen or so FBI techies and LAPD homicide detectives were still on the scene. The latest Pearl Jam played from somebody's radio. The lead singer seemed to be in terrible pain.

James Patterson

#21. ... .For instance, I hated Pearl Jam at the time. I thought they were pompous blowhards. Now, whenever a Pearl Jam song comes on the car radio, I find myself pounding my fist on the dashboard, screaming, Pearl JAM! Pearl JAM! Now this is rock and roll! Jeremy's SPO-ken! But he's still al-LIIIIIVE!

Rob Sheffield

#22. I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.

Akiva Schaffer

#23. Do you wanna hear something sick? We are but victims of desire

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#24. I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both.

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#25. I don't question our existence. I just question our modern needs.

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#26. When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

Gary Cherone

#27. We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.

Tre Cool

#28. I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.

Scott Weiland

#29. Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

Gloria Steinem

#30. I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um,
it was a combination of peyote and preserves, and it was this hallucinogenic jam.

Eddie Vedder

#31. I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

Cameron Crowe

#32. I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

Nate Ruess