Eddie Vedder Quotes - Page 5

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• Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

  Eddie Vedder

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Writing, Remembers Everything

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

  Eddie Vedder

  Beautiful, Trying, Lines

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• 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

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• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Reality, Connections, Want

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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 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

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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 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 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'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 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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• i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?

  Eddie Vedder

  Love, Beautiful, Sky

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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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• 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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• The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at all, it's just the way the meaning of the word has evolved to me. I have to wonder what we did on this planet before religion.

  Eddie Vedder

  War, Atheism, Way

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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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• When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.

  Eddie Vedder

  Children, Real, Nice

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• Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

  Eddie Vedder

  Art, Thinking, May

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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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• 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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• 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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