Eddie Vedder Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Successful, Thinking, People

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

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• I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.

  Eddie Vedder

  Liars, Son, Thieves

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• It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.

  Eddie Vedder

  Community, Balance, Seems

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

  Eddie Vedder

  Marketing, Jam, Pearls

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• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Grandma, Names, Pearls

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• It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

  Eddie Vedder

  Couple, Fun, People

  "Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam" by Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. November 06, 2002.

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• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Thinking, Sound, Band

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• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Running, Real, Florida

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• We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

  Eddie Vedder

  Stars, Rocks, Trying

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• Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.

  Eddie Vedder

  Waiting, Minutes, Humans

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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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• 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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• 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

  Eddie Vedder

  Forever, Way, Satellites

  Song: Guaranteed

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• 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

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• If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

  Eddie Vedder

  Play, Causes, Good Causes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• On bended knee is no way to be free lifting up an empty cup I ask silently that all my destinations will accept the one that's me so I can breath Circles they grow and they swallow people whole half their lives they say goodnight to wive's they'll never know got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul so it goes.

  Eddie Vedder

  Teacher, Circles, People

  Song: Guaranteed, Album: Into The Wild, 2007

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• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Writing, Choices, World

  "Q&A: Penn, Vedder go where the 'Wild' things are". Interview with Jonathan Cohen, www.reuters.com. October 27, 2007.

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• I would thank God, but I don't believe in it.

  Eddie Vedder

  Believe, Thank God, Don't Believe

  Eddie Vedder's remarks at Pearl Jam concert in Seattle's Memorial Stadium, July 22, 1998.

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• I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. 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

  Nice, Thinking, Two

  "Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. November 6, 2002.

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• You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

  Eddie Vedder

  Stars, Hard Times, Rocks

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• 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.

  Eddie Vedder

  Years, Forever, Levels

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

  Eddie Vedder

  Lost

  Source: www.billboard.com

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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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