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Jeff Ament
American
Musician
About the author
Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
#Evil
#Movies
Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
#Song
#Talking
I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
#Politics
#Causes
It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
#Information
Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
#Years
#Party
It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
#People
#World
#Vacation
That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
#World
#Reason
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,
American
Musician
#Want
#Play
#Courage
#Guitar
When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
#Now
#Kids
#Childhood
#Sex
#Drugs
We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
#Right
#Thought
We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
#Play
Our first record didn't come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
#Time
#Being
#First
We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.
Jeff Ament,
American
Musician
#Years