Latest Eddie Vedder Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm not a college graduate, but I don't know how George W.Bush could have truly believed that the flower of democracy was going to blossom in that part of the world, I mean Iraq - at least in part because the governments there are so tied to religion .

  Eddie Vedder

  Flower, Mean, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.

  Eddie Vedder

  Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Kind, Canvas, Republican

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 .

  Eddie Vedder

  Baseball, People, League

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Crazy, Blessed, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I didn't respond to the kind of sarcastic tone. It felt like some of the Sarah Palin speech was written as though it were a Saturday Night Live newscast. Maybe that's because she looks very similar . . . She's got her Tina Fey thing going.

  Eddie Vedder

  Sarcastic, Night, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I would think we have a trajectory of failure on the Republicans' part. When you think about how they managed to make John Kerry look bad during the last election for actually serving in Vietnam, and testifying in Congress after he'd gotten medals, and said that he didn't believe in them or that he didn't believe in the war and that it should stop . . . That they could turn that in negative when their guy, George W. Bush, never even went to Vietnam.

  Eddie Vedder

  War, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People say, "I'm tired of hearing about the war in Iraq. I'm tired of hearing about it." And it makes me realize how few people have deeper connections with it, as far as knowing people who have come back paralyzed or who have died, or families that have been affected . . . If they had a connection to it, then they wouldn't be tired of hearing about it.

  Eddie Vedder

  War, Tired, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Father, Thinking, Perfect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not.

  Eddie Vedder

  Years, Decision, Parent

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I'm totally within the music. I'M LOST.

  Eddie Vedder

  Lost

  Source: www.billboard.com

• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I get really worried, like if they say, 'Take vocal lessons,' or something because it's kind of like I used to really love to draw when I was a kid and then I took like an art class - because everyone said, 'Oh, you're so good, you should take a class and maybe you can be really good,' and then I went to the class and then they showed me how to use a ruler and perspective and all this stuff and it totally made me not want to do it at all.

  Eddie Vedder

  Art, Kids, Class

  Source: www.billboard.com

• It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.

  Eddie Vedder

  Feel Good, Awful, Terrible

  Source: www.billboard.com

• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Eagles, Years, Tickets

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

• I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Writing, Remembers Everything

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

• Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and I get excited talking about making record artwork or working with T-shirt designs. The least exciting part for us is talking about the finances; it's like going to the dentist for us. But we at least try to do it in a creative way and put our stamp on it. I can only think that we create something that's worth the value of that dollar.

  Eddie Vedder

  Thinking, Talking, Creative

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Strong, Guitar, Typewriters

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

• I've had a lot of typewriters that I've had relationships with; one still has a piece of masking tape that says "$8" on it. I love working on them. I can't fix a computer or a car, but I can fix a typewriter. I like them because you can write on them late at night, depending on what you're fortifying yourself with, and the next morning you can still figure what you wrote.

  Eddie Vedder

  Morning, Writing, Night

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Moving, Keys, Want

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Long, People, Way

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

• I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals.

  Eddie Vedder

  Writing, Guitar, Ukulele

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

• I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.

  Eddie Vedder

  Dream, Song, Ukulele

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

• I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

  Eddie Vedder

  Ukulele, Machines, Littles

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

• I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

  Eddie Vedder

  Ukulele, Seven, Possibility

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com