Eric Avery Quotes

• But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn’t cost anybody anything.

  Eric Avery

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• I feel that Jane’s is really a vibe and a time. It wasn’t like we were the Beatles. We didn’t have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn’t matter who played them because they’re just really great songs.

  Eric Avery

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• I said to myself a long time ago that I didn’t want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that’s why I sort of got away from music.

  Eric Avery

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• I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn’t especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

  Eric Avery

  Topics in Computer, Technology

  Tags in Musician

• I’ve sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run – I had done Jane’s and I wasn’t particularly interested in music anymore.

  Eric Avery

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• I just didn’t like the idea of doing reunions, period. I could only see it as I’d just be going over the same old ground. I’m only years older and fatter and I’ll just do an older, fatter version of me.

  Eric Avery

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• That’s it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane’s Addiction experiment is at an end.

  Eric Avery

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  Tags in Addiction, Experiment

• I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

  Eric Avery

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  Tags in Reunion

• I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane’s Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That’s how it would feel to me.

  Eric Avery

Eric Avery (9)

Birth:	25th April, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist

About

Eric Adam Avery was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an American guitarist and lyricist. He is best known as the former bass guitarist and co-founding member of alternative metal band Jane's Addiction. He has also been a touring bassist for Garbage. In 2008, he released a solo album, entitled Help Wanted. His albums list shown below: Jane's Addiction, Nothing's Shocking, Kettle Whistle, Strays, and Ritual de lo habitual.

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