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I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

Stone Gossard

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Stone Gossard
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: July 20
Guitarist
Musician
Seattle
Washington
Stone Carpenter Gossard
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A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.
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If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.
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Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.
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It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.
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It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.
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On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.
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I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.
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I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more.
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We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.
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I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like.
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It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.
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I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.
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I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.
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I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.
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I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.
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I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.
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Politics is tricky it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
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Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.
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As a songwriter it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.
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