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I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine
I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.
Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.
Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.
Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.
You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice.
Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.
The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.
It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.
Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.
That makes it even more offensive to me that she's interested in our band and she did something for Slaughter.
This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.
It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.
I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.
i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?
I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."
So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.
It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
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 just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.
Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling
I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.
Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed
The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.
I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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.
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.
The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this.
Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.
It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.
That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.
I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead.
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.