Jeff Ament Quotes

I think going on tour, having lots of songs and music videos would be super cool.

We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

When you do an album, you don't get to test an album live.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

I started touring a little bit in 1973 in support of a record I made for an independent label. In 1975, when I signed with Warner Bros., where I remained happily ensconced for the next 24 years, my touring activity increased considerably.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring.

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

As a rock fan, you read of the big labels and the multinationals and the big tours with road crews and semi-trailers full of gear, and playing stadiums. In the '90s, that's what we did.

I spent about a total of one year preparing for the 'Want' album.