Eddie Vedder Quotes
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There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.
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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'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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War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.
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Music's at its best when it has a purpose.
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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 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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I'm Eddie Vedder and I sing. I do.
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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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Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.
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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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If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?
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Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?
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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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I don't want to think I want to feel!
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I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.