Top 100 Vedder Quotes
#2. For the most part, I really love being in a collaborative thing. And in a collaborative thing if you have a singer as good as Sean Smith or Eddie Vedder, you kind of think, well, why don't you just go ahead and let them sing? People seem to really like it.
Stone Gossard
#3. The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.
Matt Cameron
#4. The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.
Michael Buble
#5. People wonder if the Pearl Jam audience will get into The Buzzcocks. Eddie Vedder is a big Buzzcocks fan. He used to come to see Buzzcocks before he was in Pearl Jam. If his fans like what he likes, I guess that they might like The Buzzcocks.
Steve Diggle
#6. I think Elvis Presley is a crooner. Even people like Eddie Vedder, I hear him sing some things and I go "wow". Seal, that kind of nice voice, too.
Michael Buble
#7. Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.
Jake Shimabukuro
#8. Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.
Bruce Dickinson
#9. I'm a child of the early nineties. Eddie Vedder and my right hand gave me my first orgasm.
Tiffany Reisz
#10. The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.
Pete Sampras
#11. After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
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#12. Ladies and gentleman of Florida, this is the real Jeff Ament ... take a very good look because there's an imposter running around ... if someone comes up to you and says he's Jeff Ament and says he wants to take your pot or wants to take you to a strip club, it's probably not him.
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#13. I used to kind of blame someone for not being able to get through that - I'm talking about the addiction part - but I've had a few experiences recently where you don't blame the person anymore.
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#14. I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.
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#15. 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.
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#16. I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.
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#17. I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.
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#18. At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.
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#19. Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
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#20. 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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#21. You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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#23. I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough ...
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#24. It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.
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#25. 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.
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#26. We've got clouds and rain, just like in Seattle .. but Sao Paulo is better.
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#27. 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.
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#28. There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.
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#29. Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.
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#30. 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.
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#31. It's an art to live with pain ... mix the light into gray.
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#32. Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead
Overhead ...
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#33. Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by
climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.
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#34. I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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#35. I would do anything to be around music.
You don't even have to pay me.
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#36. Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling
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#38. Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.
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#39. If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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#43. 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.
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#44. It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
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#45. I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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#46. You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.
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#47. 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.
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#48. The smallest oceans still make big big waves.
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#49. Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.
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#50. 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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#51. If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?
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#52. Your pot laws are great! But your gun laws are even better!
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#53. The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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#54. 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.
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#55. Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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#56. Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
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#57. 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.
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#58. When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.
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#59. Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.
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#60. If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
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#61. The love received is the love that is saved.
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#62. I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down ...
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#63. I'm angry that George Bush got to be in the White House, and I'm angry that [Al] Gore wasn't able to be a better candidate after eight years of a great economy and being an incumbent.
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#64. 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.
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#65. We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.
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#66. 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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#67. It's a fragile thing,this life we lead if I think too much I can get overwhelmed by the grace by which live our lives with death over our shoulder.
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#68. As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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#69. If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
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#70. Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed
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#71. 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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#72. I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.
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#73. Delight, Delight, Delight ... in our youth.
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#74. I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um,
it was a combination of peyote and preserves, and it was this hallucinogenic jam.
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#75. 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.
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#76. He who forgets will be destined to remember ...
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#77. 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.
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#78. 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.
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#79. It's understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record creates a healthy opportunity to process some of these emotions rather than deny them.
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#80. Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.
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#81. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
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#82. I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
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#83. 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.
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#84. That makes it even more offensive to me that she's interested in our band and she did something for Slaughter.
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#85. I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.
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#86. I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
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#87. I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.
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#88. It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've achieved as far as just spending time with people you love, and doing things like painting.
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#90. Yeah, we'll play that. You want fries with that?
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#92. I'm really high ... I mean the altitude of course.
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#93. Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
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#95. This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.
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#96. It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence ...
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#97. I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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#98. 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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#99. 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.
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