Pearl Jam Quotes

"If you trust me at all, if you want to listen to me at all..but you certainly don't have to...speaking from experience, I can tell you that things change. You can believe me, you don't have to. They probably won't change unless you make them. The best way to change something that's around you, something you don't like, is to change yourself. And I don't think you want other people changing you, I think the only person that can change you is yourself. So if you ain't happy, if you're reading magazines about generation x-ers and thinking 'yeah, I'm one of them', well fuck that. Don't let anyone tell you who you are. No, no. No one can tell me who I am. I can tell you who I am, but that would be a long story. I could tell you who I am and it wouldn't fit in a Rolling Stone. If wouldn't fit in a video...it's my life, it's your life. You're the only one who knows who you are. I hope you know who you are, figure it out. Cause you are somebody. And I'm probably stating the obvious, but I just thought I'd do it anyway. So if you feel like you've got a piece of duct tape on your mouth, if you feel like you can't speak, take it off, speak up, speak your mind, shout it out, let em hear, shout it out"-------(Live during Porch 9/29/96)"

"I don't need drugs to make my life tragic"------Ed

"Hey Listen Asshole, one more fucker thorws a fucking quarter out here, and we're out of here, I'm tellin ya fucker, what the fuck your blowin it for fuckin everybody. Hit me with a fucking quarter again, and fuck it, I'm outta here, we're all outta here, fuck you, and if anyone sees someone throw change right next to them, you have my permission to personally beat the fucking holy shit out of them. Thank you very much, fucking idiot. AHhhhhh, that felt good. Thank you.--------Ed (9/16/98 right after "go", referring to some asshole in the audience who thought it was a good idea to start whipping quarters on stage. You have to hear this, it is classic :)!!!!)

"My mind is in these songs, but the fact that so many people can relate to these songs is kind of depressing. Actually, now I understand those religious channels more. Everybody needs something"----------Ed

"I waited all day, you waited all day. But you left before sunset, and I just wanted to tell you the moment was beautiful. Just wanted to dance to bad music, drive bad cars, watch bad tv. Should have stayed for the sunset.....if not for me"--------Ed

"How many records you sell doesn't change how you look at the music. Getting a gold record was cool for about two-and-a-half minutes"-------Ed

"If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same"-----------Ed

"Everytime I see the spice girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes"-----------Ed

"There are definitely moments live where it's as good as any experience you can have. There have been shows where maybe the whole first half of the show my eyes have been closed. And then you'll look out in the crowd and there'll be somebody totally lost in their head, in exactly the same place you're in. That, to me, is the essence of music"------------Jeff

"We have to live up to the expectations of a million people. And we can't do that...and then, there's a cynical fucking media ontop of that. Fuck them. Fuck that. They question your fucking honesty. They think it's all a fucking game. They don't know whats' real......and when someone comes along who's trying to be real, they don't know the fucking difference"-------------Ed

""Thanks to the people in the back. I know they're just lighters, but they look like souls dancing"------------Ed

"Do you want a message?......Do you want a message?.....Kill your local rapist...but torture him first...then serve him to one of your enemies for dinner...I'll cook"------Ed

"I started playing the guitar because of Kiss. I was 11. I had the Kiss lunchbox, everything. Every kid at the time was into Kiss, with all the firebreathing and stuff. We used to leap around the couch with brooms and strut in front of the mirror. Actually, I still do that.-----------Mike

"You can't save someone from drowning if you're treading water yourself"--------Ed

So how many of you guys came out in limos? It's really great when your in a limo and you can put your head out the window and look out at all the homeless people....Next time you're in a limo just look out at all the homeless people sleeping in the alleys, I just dare ya to take a drink of that free alcohol.....This song is called Evenflow"------Ed

"Hey whaddaya want, somethin profound in every verse"--------Ed

"War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left"--------Ed

"Nature has applied every means possible to be sure I stand out in a crowd.
Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing has yet to be determined.
My Road it may be lonley, just because it's not paved" -------------------Ed

"The bottom line is that when we all plug in, Eddie can make us dance and play like little molecules bouncing off the wall. And, for whatever reason, we can make him feel like singing."

-- Stone Gossard in Musician magazine, May, 1995

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