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Mike McCready
American Musician
Born: Apr 5, 1965
Band Life Me Music People You
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It's hard enough just staying in the present. I can't tell you what's going to happen tomorrow. Mike McCready
You Tomorrow Enough Tell Staying Going Just Happen Hard Present
As a band, we just don't tolerate any kind of abuse or intolerance of any kind of LGBT people by any kind of government. Mike McCready
Government People Band Intolerance Kind Abuse Any Just Tolerate
I'd love to have Jack White up. I think he's just a phenomenal guitar player. I'd love to see him play up close because he's got a killer voice, and he's a great lead player, too. That would be exciting to me. Mike McCready
Love Great Me Guitar White Think Too Killer Guitar Player Would Would-Be See Voice Lead He Exciting Him Because Got Up Close Jack Just Play Player Phenomenal
People will steal ideas and put them into songs. Mike McCready
People Will Steal Songs Put Ideas Them
I think about trying to make it better. That's all I do when we play 'Even Flow' or anything off of 'Ten': 'Let's do this the best we can.' Mike McCready
Best Better Think About Ten Make Off Trying Anything Even Play Flow
We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one. Mike McCready
Out Like Couple Aerosmith Were Bands Accused Started
Reason why we've lasted so long is we write music; we get very intense. We go away from each other, do our own thing, and then we get back together. Mike McCready
Music Together Long Go Away Own Lasted Other Back Our Write Go Very Get Intense Then Reason Each Why Away Thing
Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches. Mike McCready
Writing Kind Songs Cliches Masters Soundgarden Pop
We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction. Mike McCready
Musically Direction Push Boundaries Come Different Want Things
I think I bought into that whole rock n' roll lifestyle, and all that does in the end is kill ya. So I don't recommend it to anyone. Mike McCready
Think Recommend Lifestyle Bought Ya Does Rock Rock-N-Roll End Roll Anyone In The End Whole
We have a ridiculous amount of material. Mike McCready
Material Ridiculous Amount
We came out of a very provincial city that was not very supportive of music, and we had to do our own thing and flyer everywhere. Mike McCready
Music Own Our Everywhere Flyer Out City Had Supportive Came Provincial Very Thing
We'll go to South America and play to 60,000. It's insane. Mike McCready
Insane Go South South America America Play
We value doing things grassroots, even at this level. That means no real high ticket prices or meet-and-greets and all that kind of stuff. Mike McCready
Value Kind High Prices Stuff Ticket Real Doing Means Even Grassroots Level Things
When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic. Mike McCready
You Together Band Whatever Thinking Myopic Inwardly Very Trying Just Your Keep
Pearl Jam sit down and have conversations about Kiss all the time on tour. Mike McCready
Time Kiss Sit Down About Tour Jam Conversations Pearl Pearl Jam
When you're really young, dating girls, and trying to explain Kiss, they just look at you like you're kind of crazy. I think they got so big in the Seventies and were such a phenomenon - they did the 'Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park' movie, the solo records - some people only know the merchandising stuff. Mike McCready
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Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players. Mike McCready
Musicians Want Baseball Actor Baseball Players Players
Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle. Mike McCready
Life Song Darkness Beauty Painted Chris Seattle
I love some kind of pressure in the air. Some kind of weirdness in the crowd, good or bad. That's what we thrive on. Mike McCready
Love Good Pressure Thrive Air Kind Bad Some Crowd Weirdness
I like 'X-Files'-type shows with government conspiracies and extraterrestrials and all that. Mike McCready
Government Extraterrestrial Conspiracies Like Shows
I like to have a lot of different creative outlets. Mike McCready
Creative Outlets Like Lot Different
We want to have a life outside of Pearl Jam, too. Mike McCready
Life Too Outside Jam Want Pearl Pearl Jam
I used to sit for hours and copy every lick on those early AC/DC and Kiss records. From there, I went on to Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan. After a while, you kind of develop your own style. Mike McCready
You Kiss Style Sit Own Every Those Clapton Kind Lick Records Develop Ray Hours Stevie Eric Eric Clapton After While Your Used Early Copy
Honestly, I'd rather do regular interviews. It's more interesting to talk about whatever... anything other than guitars. I'm not into being a tech-head. Mike McCready
Whatever Honestly Other Interviews Guitars About Rather More Talk Than Being Anything Interesting Regular
There are moments in South America, in Brazil, where you look out, and there are literally thirty, forty thousand people jumping up and down at the same time. Mike McCready
Time You People Brazil Down Thirty Out Thousand Look South South America Up Up And Down Jumping America Same Same Time Where Literally Forty Moments
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