Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I love writing songs.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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Now we've finally been able to give them a common home where they work really well as a whole, which is a relief. We didn't want to see them just trickle out randomly or even worse just sit in the vault until the next record or who knows how long. So that's the beauty of technology: We can get songs out to our fans whenever and however we want.
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'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it.
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There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.
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It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.
