Eddie Vedder Quotes - Page 5

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• I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.

  Eddie Vedder

  Dream, Musician, Example

  "At Emmys, Kimmel jokes about Mitt, Obama" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. September 24, 2012.

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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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.billboard.com

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

  Eddie Vedder

  Lost

  Source: www.billboard.com

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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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Hard Times, Trying, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

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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

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• I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

  Eddie Vedder

  Thinking, Should Have, Usa

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

  Eddie Vedder

  Thinking, Way, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would thank God, but I don't believe in it... It's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's been told too many times and just doesn't mean anything... All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.

  Eddie Vedder

  Believe, Mean, Thank God

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• 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

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• So much energy comes out of concerts sometimes, especially good ones that are really moving. And that energy, no matter how great the show is, it dissipates within two weeks or a month.

  Eddie Vedder

  Moving, Two, Energy

  Interview with Carrie Brownstein, www.believermag.com. June 2004.

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• If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.

  Eddie Vedder

  Ocean, Opportunity, Playing Music

  "Sean Penn, Eddie Vedder". Interview with Aaron Stipkovich, andmagazine.com. May 16, 2011.

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• 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

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• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Going Away, Band, Should

  Interview with Carrie Brownstein, www.believermag.com. June 2004.

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• I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it.

  Eddie Vedder

  Beautiful, Taken, Light

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

  Eddie Vedder

  Proud, Sake, Audience

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• Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

  Eddie Vedder

  Cocky, Competition, Healthy

  Interview with Carrie Brownstein, www.believermag.com. June 2004.

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• I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.

  Eddie Vedder

  Drug, Needs, Life Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Numbers, People, Leaving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's not a bad time to be me.

  Eddie Vedder

  Bad Times

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Strong, Guitar, Typewriters

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

  Eddie Vedder

  Long, Untamed, Energy

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• When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Guitar, Play

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• I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you're going to get more enjoyment out of it if it comes to you quickly, and the uke facilitates that.

  Eddie Vedder

  Thinking, Hawaii, Enjoyment

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• 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

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