91 Quotes by Stone Gossard

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

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

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.

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.

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.

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.

Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.