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The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets. -- Alvin Toffler
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians. -- Jack Irons
I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam. -- Larry King
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today. -- Lewis Carroll
It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam. -- Graham Coxon
Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it. -- Kate Moss
We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family. -- Stone Gossard
I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam. -- Jack Irons
I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie. -- Ellie Goulding
I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with. -- Christina Milian
I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis. -- Chris Paul
Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in. -- Michael Chabon
I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era. -- Jay-Z
And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain. -- St. Vincent
I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me. -- Noel Gallagher
Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it. -- Adam Carolla
You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam. -- Brian Posehn
Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest -- Diana Wynne Jones
Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be. -- Jeff Ament
Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don't ask me why, it just is. -- Thom Yorke
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Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer. -- Sandra Dallas
Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable. -- Eddie Vedder
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story. -- Gary Cherone
There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now. -- Method Man
Together me and Amy are Jaramy. Pearl Jam wrote a song about us speaking in class. -- Jarod Kintz
Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now. -- Rick Dees
Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it. -- Gloria Steinem
We're super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play. -- Stone Gossard
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could. -- Nate Ruess
We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam. -- Tre Cool
I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders. -- Kurt Cobain
Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam. -- Joey Ramone
I pride myself on being the guy who can do Def Comedy Jam and Charlie Rose. And do well on both. -- Chris Rock
There was so much great music around in the 60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam. -- Iwan Rheon
This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball. -- Blake Griffin
I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam. -- Chris Paul
There was so much great music around in the '60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam. -- Iwan Rheon
'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar. -- Mark Salling
I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters. -- Akiva Schaffer
While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.] -- Ovid
Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility. -- Larry Wilmore
Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity. -- John Oates
As I grew up, I wasn't a great buyer of albums, but I really liked 'The Jam.' I like good musicians and loved the energy of their songs. -- Anton du Beke
-Nunca dejarÃa de creer en ti -dijo-. JamÃ¡s. Lo que siento por ti...-Se atracÃ³-. Es lo mÃ¡s grande que he sentido en mi vida. [pp.78] -- Cassandra Clare
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records. -- Chuck D
Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle. -- Jon Gruden
I just didn't wanna put the pressure on myself to be in there [Def Jam South] to work as an artist and to have the hat as the executive with other projects. -- DJ Khaled
I think Def Jam happened to be one of the labels that really didn't have a good grip on things that were going on. I'll say that - that's my political answer. -- Joe Budden
The dimensions of video game characters, even when they're scanned from real people, are beefed up with exaggerated proportions in games like Def Jam: Fight for NY to give them more pop. -- Cliff Bleszinski
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.' -- Jeff Ament
It started off really"¦claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they [Def Jam] were giving me the blueprint and I couldn't get with that -- Rihanna
I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original Goldeneye. Im that geek. I have an NBA Jam arcade machine in my office at SNL. -- Taran Killam
I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.' -- Taran Killam
The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. I speak like my mom. I speak like the whitest white dude. I speak like a "Def Comedy Jam" comedian doing an impression of a white guy. -- Jordan Peele
The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads. -- Paul Weller
Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well. -- Christian McBride
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 always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise. -- Cameron Crowe
It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other. -- Stone Gossard
I've always been an outsider. When I did magic, I was the only kid. When I worked with Johnny Cash, I was completely out of place in Nashville. And when I started Def Jam, I was the only white guy in the hip-hop world. -- Rick Rubin
People wonder if the Pearl Jam audience will get into The Buzzcocks. Eddie Vedder is a big Buzzcocks fan. He used to come to see Buzzcocks before he was in Pearl Jam. If his fans like what he likes, I guess that they might like The Buzzcocks. -- Steve Diggle
I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, 'We ain't Pearl Jam.' That's back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we're still charging less than them. -- Eddie Vedder
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. -- Roger Staubach
You can't jam change down the American people's throat. -- Dennis Hastert
My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood. -- Kurtis Blow
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam. -- Claire Danes
If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself. -- Steve Wynn
I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies. -- Dane Cook
Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good. -- Georgie Henley
We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song. -- Charlie Byrd
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. -- Grace Abbott
That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs. -- Charlie Byrd
Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam. -- Grace Abbott
Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars? -- James Murdoch
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually. -- Lee Konitz
I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics. -- Hope Solo
There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam. -- Rahul Dravid
I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house. -- Jackie DeShannon
When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other. -- Kid Koala
I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes. -- Jamie Oliver
Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time. -- Tony Visconti
Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night. -- Ben Webster
America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch...My James Brown. -- Bernie Mac
Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience. -- Jeff Healey
We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate. -- Russ Feingold
Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers. -- Summer Sanders
The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it, when we were still playing the pubs and clubs - around '75. Shocking, really - what would you call them apart from 'horrible?' We'd wear these white zip-up bomber jackets with black kind of loon pants and black and white shoes. -- Paul Weller
Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously! -- Steven Van Zandt
I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind of indie, and I was always into the kind of sub-pop Seattle Mud Honey and Pearl Jam kind of sound. But my kind of big love was house music ever since I was 15/16, going to raves when I was 15 or 16 years old and not going to school, like a naughty boy. -- Nick Frost
They own a shop of exotic jam. -- Gina Marinello-Sweeney
There's no traffic jam on the extra mile. -- Zig Ziglar
I've never been a jam-band sort of musician. -- Tom DeLonge
Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.] -- Horace
once it's jam, it can't be strawberries anymore. -- Marilyn Wallace
Why was it that jam always coated me so? -- Catherine Gilbert Murdock
As far as I'm concerned, everything's ham and jam. -- Darrell Royal
Me + Love Songs on KOST=embarrassing car jam sesh. -- Joanna Garcia
Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam. -- Floriana Lima
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Minor keys and drugs don't make a roller skate jam. -- Prince
My family was all musicians. We jam all the time. -- Tyler Hilton
My favourite shower jam song is 'Teenage Dream' by Katy Perry. -- Justin Bieber
I got really into rock - soft, romantic rock was my jam. -- Sara Bareilles
Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body. -- Andreas Moritz
It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know. -- Lewis Carroll
Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten -- Tony Benn
If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest -- Charles Barkley
The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam. -- Willie Robertson
I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam. -- Eve Best
I don't have too much time to jam with the rest of Hollywood. -- Jeff Bridges
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. -- John Updike
Fine. I'm a Skotos (Xypher) That means what? You have toe jam? (Simone) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rick Santorum is so conservative; he thinks KY Jelly is jam made in Kentucky. -- Jay Leno
Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan, swingin' through your town like your neighbourhood spiderman! -- Inspectah Deck
Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx. -- Delmore Schwartz
Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again. -- Jon Stewart
Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band. -- Sharon Jones

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