Eric Avery Quotes

• I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.

  Eric Avery

  Kids, Fate, Thinking

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• That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

  Eric Avery

  Regret, Addiction, Relief

  Eric Avery @ericavery, twitter.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.

  Eric Avery

  Art, Doctors, Physicians

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• I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

  Eric Avery

  Thinking, Addiction, Soul

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• I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

  Eric Avery

  Technology, Musician, Way

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• I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

  Eric Avery

  Bucks, Way, Firsts

  "Eric Avery joins Addiction for NME Awards" by Jonathan Cohen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 16, 2008.

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• But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

  Eric Avery

  Cost, Stuff, Horrible

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• I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore.

  Eric Avery

  Running, Musician, Done

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• I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

  Eric Avery

  Rocks, Long, Guy

  "Jane's addiction ex=bassist Eric Avery recovers with Solo Lp, calls Billy Morgan 'inspiring'" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. December 26, 2007.

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