Eddie Vedder Quotes
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I had a long talk with Bruce Springsteen on a rooftop during the Vote for Change tour (in 2004). And it boiled down to this: That guy you used to be, he’s still in the car. He’ll always be in the car. Just don’t let him drive. He might be shouting out directions. But whatever you do, don’t let him get behind the wheel.
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I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.
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I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are.
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It's a mystery to me We have a greed with which we have agreed You think you have to want more than you need Until you have it all you won't be free When you want more than you have You think you need And when you think more than you want Your thoughts begin to bleed I think I need to find a bigger place 'Cause when you have more than you think You need more space Society, you're a crazy breed I hope you're not lonely without me Society, crazy and deep I hope you're not lonely without me.
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If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.
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I don't want to think I want to feel!
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I'm Eddie Vedder and I sing. I do.
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If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same.
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Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
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It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.
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This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.
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I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.
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I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.
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War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.
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I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally justify taking or ruining those lives and leaving them with nothing. That, to me, is violent crime. It's certainly more violent than selling grams of pot to other adults.
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The nice thing about money is that you can do good things with it. I still feel like if something needs to be done or we need to raise money for someone on death row, we can find ways to do it.
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Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.
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Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that they go for the eyes first.
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Music's at its best when it has a purpose.
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I've stepped back a few times and had these crazy epiphanies that we are blessed by having Barack Obama as a candidate at this time in our history. If we were ever to have a man of color become president - and it shouldn't be about that, and it doesn't need to be, because he's qualified on all levels - but if you do think about it, just in terms of that idea of unifying people, it's a huge positive.
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I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."
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I think a lot of things are written from experience, but then you become a writer and talk about other people's experience and you tell stories. I mean, you can't just tell your own story all the time.
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Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?
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You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.