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" When you're moved by music, that's always good. "
Stone Gossard
Moved
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" Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can. "
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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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" I'm probably at my least religious I've ever been in a while. When you're moved by music, that's always good. But I haven't been talking to God too much lately. "
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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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" You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it. "
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