91 Quotes by Stone Gossard

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.

It’s a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

I like myself. I think I’m cool. But I think when you’re in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don’t know. It’s kind of hard to talk about.

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

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don’t do anything all winter long. So that’s another motivating factor, our vanity.

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.

I think it’s evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That’s my own feeling about it.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I’m continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.