Eddie Vedder Quotes
-
The smallest oceans still make big big waves.
→ -
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.
→ -
I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.
→ -
Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?
→ -
Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
→ -
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.
→ -
If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
→ -
So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
→ -
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
→ -
We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.
→ -
If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.
→ -
Cannot find the comfort in this world.
→ -
That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.
→ -
The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
→ -
Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.
→ -
I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants.I need to make room for the bassoon record.
→ -
You have to be able to grow and move with the organism that is the music industry. You need to maintain flexibility. Ownership of your own stuff is key and then you're able to dictate on a present-terms basis what would be the most effective way to protect yourself and what you've created. You also don't want to lock yourself into a situation where a major label owns part of your touring and merchandise.
→ -
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.
→ -
It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.
→ -
I still think that with any candidate, whoever gets elected, there are going to be certain issues or platforms that those who feel strongly can work with him on. You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer. You can't be the perfect president.
→ -
I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.
→ -
Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.
→ -
The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball. Less people killed. It wouldn't have affected the world on a planetary level. Sure, there would have been little things. There would have been scandals and kind of numbskull things here and there .
→ -
I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, 'We ain't Pearl Jam.' That's back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we're still charging less than them.
→ -
I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
→ -
There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
→ -
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.
→ -
You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.
→ -
The Republicans initially sort of saw George W. Bush as a blank canvas, didn't they? It seems like they interviewed him when he was governor of Texas to see what kind of candidate he could be.
→ -
Are you woman enough to be my man?
→
Related Authors
-
Tom Petty Musician -
Matt Cameron Musician -
Eddie Van Halen Musician -
Dave Grohl Musician -
Chris Cornell Musician -
Vince Vaughn Film actor -
Layne Staley Musician -
Jeff Ament Musician -
Jack Johnson Singer-songwriter -
Christopher McCandless Adventurer -
Kurt Cobain Musician -
Neil Young Songwriter -
Scott Weiland Musician -
Glen Hansard Songwriter -
Mike McCready Musician -
Bruce Springsteen Musician -
Roger Waters Musician -
Stone Gossard Musician -
Jack Irons Musician -
Bob Dylan Musician