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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.

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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Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.
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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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