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Eddie Vedder, born on December 23, 1964, is a renowned American musician. He is best known as the lead singer of the rock band Pearl Jam, whose unique voice and heartfelt lyrics have won him a dedicated fan base.

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“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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“You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.”

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

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“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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“I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.”

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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.”

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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.”

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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Enjoyment Hawaii Facilitate New You

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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.”

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“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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“I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.”

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“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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“People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!”

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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.”

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“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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“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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“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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“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.”

Trying Moments Beautiful Lines Standing Heavy Something Beautiful

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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.”

Firsts Play Song Guitar Solo Ramones

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“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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“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.”

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“Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!”

Should Pockets Framed

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“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”

Believe Flesh Breathing Ceilings I'm Sad

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“I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.”

Pure My Thoughts Indignation

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“i change by not changing at all”

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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?”

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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”

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“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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“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.”

Feels Night Tree Wind Hair Late Singing Overhead

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“If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?”

Ifs Dream Sleep Can't Sleep

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“I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!”

Life Wave Take Me Pearl Jam

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“Society, you're a crazy breed.”

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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.”

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“It's a mystery to me We have a greed with which we have agreed You think you have to want more than you need Until you have it all you won't be free When you want more than you have You think you need And when you think more than you want Your thoughts begin to bleed I think I need to find a bigger place 'Cause when you have more than you think You need more space Society, you're a crazy breed I hope you're not lonely without me Society, crazy and deep I hope you're not lonely without me”

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“I remember sitting in this pool hall with Stone and Chris and we watched - this really old, really classic pool hall - and we were sitting there and it was really rainy out and George Bush came on and started telling us about the [Gulf] war and that we were going and, and the whole thing, and there's part of that in it, when we talk about "I don't question our exsistence / I just question, our modern needs.”

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“I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.”

Knows Inspirational Know Me

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“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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“I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine”

Knows Life Dies Born Mines

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“It's the ones without scars - those are the people you have to watch out for.”

People Watches Scar

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“I had a long talk with Bruce Springsteen on a rooftop during the Vote for Change tour (in 2004). And it boiled down to this: That guy you used to be, he’s still in the car. He’ll always be in the car. Just don’t let him drive. He might be shouting out directions. But whatever you do, don’t let him get behind the wheel.”

Long Stills Might Used Guy Behinds Car Vote Used To Be Wheels That Guy Shouting Rooftops Springsteen

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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.”

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“He who forgets will be destined to remember.”

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

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“I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.”

Wish Trust Verbs

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“It’s a song about first relationships and letting go. It’s very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth’s gravitational pull and where it’s going to take people and how they’re going to grow. I’ve heard it said that you can’t really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It’s a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can’t have forever.”

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“This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.”

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Born: December 23, 1964
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 185

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