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Jeff Ament

"We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that."

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"We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that."

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Amber Hurdle

"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."

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Amber Hurdle

"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."

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Amber Hurdle

"I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up."

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"I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play."

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Amber Hurdle

"When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that."

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Amber Hurdle

"But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't get called very often to play innocents."

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Amber Hurdle

"After you play a part, you think of it as your own."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts."

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"The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on directors, because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part. And he did so."

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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right."
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"Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil."
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"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."
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"I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said."
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"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."
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"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."
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"That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world."
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