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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.

Eddie Vedder

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Eddie Vedder
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: December 23
Guitarist
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Chicago
Illinois
Eddie Jerome Vedder
Edward Louis Severson III
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