Quotes
Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.
Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
The idea of the band is becoming more of a foldable, interchangable, and disposable idea. It was a big deal when Ron Wood joined the rolling stones, but I don't think anyone would notice if Pearl Jam got a new guitarist.
Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
I've always been a tapper, as in, on tables, school desks, my legs and chest. I've eventually been able to figure out how to move that to the guitar.
I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means.
I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
I haven't studied with anyone. "doing it yourself" is something I took from punk rock, though I believe that's a pretty bankrupt myth, that one does it themself. When we all do it ourself, we're all doing it, aren't we?
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
American commentators always ridicule the Japanese as being outdated because of company loyalty. 21 year olds that work in coffee shops don't want to admit it, but their system of "being in a band" is working the same way.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.
For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.
I'm a sweet eater. I love lemon pie and sweet potato pie.
I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.
I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.