Jeff Ament Quotes (33 quotes)

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„Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'“
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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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„There really is a certain magic that happens when you're in the studio. And it's important in life to feel that magic: to feel that there is something greater moving all this along.“
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„Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say 'Hi' before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, 'Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!'“
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„I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time.“
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„I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.“
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„I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music.“
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„I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.“
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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.'“
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„We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.“
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„I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.“
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„I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula.“
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„I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.“
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„I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.“
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„I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.“
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„I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.“
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„I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.“
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„I feel like in a lot of ways I can relate to the fans, just being a fan of music myself.“
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„I don't have a great voice or even a good voice.“
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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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Jeff Ament
Author born: March 10, 1963
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Musician

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