Eddie Vedder Quotes

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
Eddie Vedder

Life, Change, Music

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
Eddie Vedder

Best, Yourself, Live

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
Eddie Vedder

Art, Pain, Live

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
Eddie Vedder

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.
Eddie Vedder

Life, Eyes, Keep

I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
Eddie Vedder

Power, Risk, Difference

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

Music, Family, Job

The love received is the love that is saved.
Eddie Vedder

Love, Saved, Received

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
Eddie Vedder

Life, History, Forward

It's not a bad time to be me.
Eddie Vedder

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.
Eddie Vedder

Work, Career, Why

Caffeine. The gateway drug.
Eddie Vedder

Caffeine, Gateway

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
Eddie Vedder

Hope, Strong, Live

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.
Eddie Vedder

Good, Enough, Try

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

Life, Good, Nice

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
Eddie Vedder

After, Punk, Wave

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

Marketing, Hear, Pearl

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.
Eddie Vedder

Young, Far, Used

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.
Eddie Vedder

Yourself, Point, Realize

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
Eddie Vedder

Days, Imagine, Paparazzi

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

Before, While, Actually

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.
Eddie Vedder

Nothing, Water, Except

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

Deep, Reality, Stay

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

Saying, Voice, Room

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.
Eddie Vedder

Person, Become, Days

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Nationality: American

Born: December 23, 1964

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