Jeff Ament Quotes

• It’s great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take ’em to some cool places.

  Jeff Ament

• That’s probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band – I wanted to see the world.

  Jeff Ament

• I’m not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula.

  Jeff Ament

• It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

  Jeff Ament

• It’s hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there’s too much going on for us not to get involved.

  Jeff Ament

• Make movies. Don’t make videos. Videos are evil.

  Jeff Ament

• I didn’t write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.

  Jeff Ament

• Our first record didn’t come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better.

  Jeff Ament

• We’ve always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

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• Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

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• We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we’re going to after that.

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• We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.

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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. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

  Jeff Ament

• I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

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• I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

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• When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had s*x a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

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• Every few years I’ll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

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Jeff Ament (17)

Birth:	10th March, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Bassist, Lyricist

About

Jeffrey Allen "Jeff" Ament was born in Havre, Montana, USA. He is an American musician and songwriter who serves as the bassist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. He is also a member of the bands Temple of the Dog, Three Fish, and RNDM. In 2008, he released his first solo album, Tone. A second solo album, While My Heart Beats, followed in 2012. He has written several songs include: "Nothingman" (with Eddie Vedder), "Nothing as It Seems", and "Save You" (with others).

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