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Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

Eddie Vedder

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Eddie Vedder
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 23
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
Illinois
Eddie Jerome Vedder
Edward Louis Severson III
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I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.
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The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at all, it's just the way the meaning of the word has evolved to me. I have to wonder what we did on this planet before religion.
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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.
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It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.
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This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.
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I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.
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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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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice.
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Worship the music, not the musicians.
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It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
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Music saved me I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
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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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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.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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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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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.
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