PEARL JAM ON MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

1. Pearl Jam on thier fans/live quips to the audience
2. Pearl Jam on the Breath campaign
3. Pearl Jam on Ed's past
4. Pearl Jam on the imfamous Rolling Stone article
5. Pearl Jam on becoming a plumber
6. Pearl Jam on y2k
7. Pearl Jam on pot and alcohol
8. Pearl Jam on being Ed's best friend
9. Pearl Jam on the WTO riots
10.Pearl Jam on misc. misc. etc. etc







Pearl Jam on thier fans/live quips to the audience.

"I know my name, and if I knew yours, I'd tell you to shut the fuck up!" (live - Atlanta, GA - 4/2/94)
~Ed
"You know what? I felt it was a real honor that people said we were their favorite band. People should know that it meant a lot to me." (interview - Spin - 1/95)
~Ed
"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. It 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. If you don't 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] - Randall's Island, NY - 9/29/96)
~Ed
"What's really sad about the whole thing is that Beth and I are the kind of people who'd love to ask some kid, some fan, into our house, you know, sit them down and play them records from our jukebox, that kind of thing, but we just can't do that now." (interview - Spin Magazine - 2/97)
~Ed
"It was the first thing in the morning. I tried to get there before people were actually let in, so...it was definitely seeing the event, at least the show dates from the ground up, and I remember myself kinda being out there in, you know, a pair of Vans and a pair of shorts and a T-shirt, and feeling kinda vulnerable and everyone was really respectful of my space and I was amazed at how everyone was really open to listen. It's always kind of a touchy thing when you want to suggest to someone some, an issue to think about. It shouldn't be...but it is. You know, people are always trying to soak people's brains with myths and lies, and here's something that's really true and yet you don't want to be a part of the other...all the other air pollution that's out there. And they were...everyone I talked to was really responsive and open and you know they might have been there to, I think the main thing was to see their favorite bands or see what was gonna happen musically that day, but everyone was really open and that was encouraging. It was nice to see it standing on the grass with them, you know, talking to 'em, looking right in their eyes rather than kind of wondering how it was going from like, just standing on the stage or something and looking out and not really knowing, that was...I was thrilled to have that experience, you know. It gave me a lot of hope and a lot of faith that this certainly ain't the slacker generation that it's painted out to be." (interview - TFC 97 broadcast - 12/97)
~Ed
"I'm not sure what you said, but it was either you wanted my pick, my drink, or my dick. Now, I have some picks, and I have a few beers, but I only have one dick, and I'm keeping it to myself so I'll have something to do in fuckin' boring towns like Knoxville." (live - Knoxville, TN - 09/06/98)
~Ed
"I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of." (interview - New York Daily News - 8/10/99)
~Ed
"I like that people analyze my work. I'm happy whenever someone cares enough to go into it that deeply." (interview - New York Daily News - 8/10/99)
~Ed
"If you can energize people who listen to you to look into issues and understand their freedoms, that's a really positive thing. And as artists, I think you have a responsibility." (interview - New York Daily News - 8/10/99)
~Ed
"We obviously respect the audience. That's what I think we all feel when we're an audience, whether as a theatergoer or seeing films or reading. I'm insulted when I'm not respected as an audience member." (interview - Sonicnet - 4/21/00)
~Ed
"The only reason you guys chant my name is that i'm the only guy in the band whose name is two syllables. we call stone 'stoney'. you could chant that: 'stone-y, stone-y'" (live)
~Ed
"I can't tell if you're saying 'I Love You' or 'Fuck You'!" (live)
~Ed
"You don't love me. You love who you think I am and the image you have created in your mind." (live)
~Ed

Pearl Jam on the Breath campaign.

"This song [Elderly Woman...] has the word 'breath' in it if it helps at all." (live - East Rutherford, NJ - 9/8/98)
~Ed
"Yeah, I was gonna learn to play it but somebody slipped me a bottle of viagra and was busy doing something else six times last night" (live - New York, NY - 9/10/98)
~Ed

Pearl Jam on Ed's past.

"She came out with the specific purpose to tell me that this guy wasn't my father. I remember at the time I was like 'I know he's not my father, he's a fucking asshole.' And she said, 'Oh, Eddie, he's really not your father.' At first I was pretty happy about it, then she told me who my real dad was. I had met the guy three or four times, he was a friend of the family, kind of a distant friend. He died of multiple sclerosis. So when I met him, he was in the hospital. He had crutches, or maybe he was in a wheelchair. There was a piano in the room," he goes on, "and I remember really wishing I knew how to play a happy song. I was happy for about a minute, and then I came down. I had to deal with the fact that he was dead. My real father was not on this earth. I had to deal with the anger of not being told sooner, not being told while he was alive. I was a big secret. Secrets are bad news. Secrets about adoption, any of that stuff. It's got to come out, don't keep it. It just gets bigger and darker and deeper and uglier and messy. Musically, I tried to think if I had a goal, what it was, and I think more than anything it was to leave something for my kid, if I had one to listen to. I'm actually a junior. My real name is something-something the third." (interview - Rolling Stone - 10/28/93)
~Ed
"I'd fall asleep and things in class and they'd lecture me about the reality of their classroom. I said, 'You want to see my reality?' I opened up my backpack to where you usually keep your pencils. That's where I kept my bills... electric bills, rent...That was my reality." (interview - LA Times - 5/1/94)
~Ed
"I didn't get to know my dad. I just bumped into him a couple of times." (interview - New York Daily News - 8/10/99)
~Ed

Pearl Jam on the imfamous Rolling Stone article.

"I know who I am, and I don't need to read someone else's bitter take on it." (interview - LA Times - 12/22/96)
~Ed
"If I was all that popular, I am just finding out about it now. I must have had a bunch of friends I didn't even know about...I don't think that was the case. It must just be so many people now saying they were my friends." (interview - LA Times - 12/22/96)
~Ed

Pearl Jam on becoming a plumber.

"I mean, I definitely started to examine that kind of possibility. But luckily - for me and for people with burst water pipes or blocked toilets everywhere - there were some options we could explore to maybe have our peace of mind and still make music." (interview - Kerrang! - 1/24/98)
~Ed
"But I'm sure there's ad-lib plumbers. You could start a new breed of plumbers - you know, the Eddie Vedder School Of Plumbing, that refuses to follow the conventional rules of the system. But just remember that if you're going to do it to always show your butt-crack - that's the golden rule you can't ignore." (interview - Kerrang! - 1/24/98)
~Stone

Pearl Jam on y2k.

"when you think in context of sharks having been around for 60 million years, why the fuss over a mere 2,000?" (Ten Club Newsletter #14 - 3/99)
~Ed
"y2k?.... the millenium....don't believe the hype...zero-zero...'00'...... it's got potential for a new beginning... a clean slate... a nice blanks sheet a paper, opposed to the current one with scribble all over it...." (Ten Club Newsletter #14 - 3/99)
~Ed

Pearl Jam on pot and alcohol.

"I smoke pot, but I didn't exhale" (live - Randall's Island, NY - 9/29/96)
~Ed
"I started out this evening drinking tea, but then I moved onto some wine because I have a feeling some of you got a head start on me" (live - Buffalo, NY - 10/1/96)
~Ed

Pearl Jam on being Ed's best friend.

"Eddie's looking for a new best friend, so we've decided that will be the first contest we run this year, to win the chance to be Ed's new best friend! The winner will have to move in right next door to him and pop round to borrow sugar, but they'll also have to listen to all his stories..." (interview - Kerrang! - 1/24/98)
~Stone
"... And I promise you the winner will definitely be trying to get out of it in less than a day!" (interview - Kerrang! - 1/24/98)
~Ed

Pearl Jam on the WTO riots.

"I was really proud of our town. I mean, I wasn't sure what was going to happen, but it turned out to be a real positive thing. It's so important that people were motivated to cause such a ruckus, because it starts to make you feel crazy if you're thinking about things it seems like nobody else is." (interview - NME - 5/13/00)
~Ed
"The anarchy of the whole event was great. I thought that was awesome." (interview - NME - 5/13/00)
~Matt

Pearl Jam on misc. misc. etc. etc.

"I haven't really had a lot of faith in any sort of God or anything in a long time. I was always, like, well, if it exists, I'll know it when I die. But somebody's definitely been making sure everything's okay. I know that everything that led up to this, all the stuff that was totally painful at the time, happened for a reason. This is so much better than anything we've ever done. I mean, I've never been in a situation like this, ever. Somebody's looking out for us. Because there's no other way to explain this." (interview - Rolling Stone - 10/31/91)
~Jeff
"I am a doughnut." (live - Berlin, Germany - 11/03/96)
~Ed
"I learned to, what's that martial arts phrase, Jeet Kune Do. You know, where someone comes at you with a whole bunch of energy and you just use that energy to let that thing knock itself down. Don't get in there and try to wrestle those things that are so much bigger than you; just pert that whole energy and let that thing trip over itself." (interview - Spin Magazine - 2/97)
~Ed
"If it doesn't feel right, we don't want to do it. I'm kind of proud of that." (interview - Spin Magazine - 2/97)
~Ed
"We're having a great time these days." (interview - Spin Magazine - 2/97)
~Stone
"There's been a lot of talk about whether you all are gonna show up at the rally tomorrow and that you only come here for the music...it doesn't matter, what matters is that we've all got your money." (live - TFC - 6/8/97)
~Ed
"Doing something new with different people helps you to see your own strengths and, perhaps more importantly, your own weaknesses." (interview - Kerrang! - 1/24/98)
~Ed
"Things like that perhaps you're locked into in your own band, and you realise need to be different - either on a musical or personal level." (interview - Kerrang! - 1/24/98)
~Ed
"Behave like rock stars - not like the President." (live - Noblesville, IN - 8/17/98)
~Ed
"They want your parents to have to go with you to rock concerts, just in case some guy pulls out his penis or something. It's rock and roll. You should be able to, I should be able to show my penis. It's rock and roll." (live - East Lansing, MI - 8/18/98)
~Ed
"You hear this stuff...I don't know. I mean, a lot of it is true. I am pretty serious. I approach music seriously. But it's not like you get to one place and stay there." (interview - New York Daily News - 8/10/99)
~Ed
"It's like the story about the night Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison got together. People say, 'Oh, I wish they'd made a tape.' Your imagination leads you to all sorts of things, most of them great. But in reality, it was probably a lot of drunken, cheap blues. The idea of it, the romance, is better." (interview - New York Daily News - 8/10/99)
~Ed
"Maybe I'll go back to school. I love playing in [Pearl Jam] and feel blessed that people like us, but I'd like to finish my degree. I'll probably study history and literature. No math, that's for sure." (interview - Boston Globe - 2/11/00)
~Mike
"I love bootlegs! I've always collected them - I have about 400 Rolling Stones bootlegs." (interview - Guitar World - 7/00)
~Mike
"In the global scope of what it all means, we're really just passing through. I feel very insignificant---and I like that. It's pretty grounding. I mean, if I see a good pile of ants going---say they're trying to carry the corpse of a wasp out of a screen door---I'll take an hour and watch how they work. They're all working for one purpose. I feel like one of those little guys. It's like 'Okay, at least I know what I'm doing here, and it's nothing too important'. That's very calming. And you try to do a little bit of good within that. I'm happy trying to communicate as a small human with a fragile heart, and a questionable brain." (interview - Revolver - 8/00)
~Ed
"I had to return the assless chaps to the rental place after the show...they were cold...but hot too." (Synergy BBS - 1/14/01)
~Mike
[on the recent Seattle earthquake]"I was out for a walk with my son and my dog and didn't feel a darn thing. Pretty soon after that my wife, she drove up in the car to where we were walking to and said, 'Didn't you feel the earthquake?' So I missed out and I'm bummed, man! Because it sounded like it was a huge one. But we lucked out because it could have been a lot worse. We've got a lot of hazardous, old, crumbling structures here in Seattle that are resting on a fault line." (interview - Launch - 3/2/01)
~Matt
"I'll be there for ya baby." (Single Video Theory)
~Stone








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