Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam

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• Saved Me

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• To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • You
  • Difference
  • Driven

• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • World
  • Hope

• I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Lies

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Answer

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Never
  • Flowers

• My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Dad
  • Vote
  • Mentor

• I really love learning and working long hours.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Long
  • Learning
  • Working

• Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Long
  • Character
  • Funny

• I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Doing

• Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Change
  • Something
  • Expected

• My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Way
  • My Life

• I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

  

  Kanye West
  • Band
  • Always
  • British

• Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Human
  • Cat
  • Lion

• Chorus of Birds: Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing. (tr. Warter 1830, p. 199)

  

  Aristophanes

• I don't speak to my brother every week - doesn't mean I don't love him.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Brother

• You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Enjoyment
  • Birds
  • Credulity

• Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Sound

• What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.

  

  Luther Allison
  • Music
  • Believe

• Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Tree
  • Saved Me