Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
One thing you might suggest to a young band is don't get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
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It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
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Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.
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I am an indie kid. I made no bones about the fact that I fell into DJing electronic music by accident, by a lucky break, but it doesn't make me any less of a fan of that music, I just never envisaged... not through a lack of confidence or belief, I just didn't think that I'd be sharing the bill with people that I was going out to see myself.
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You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
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One thing you might suggest to a young band is don't get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.
