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Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

Eddie Vedder

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Eddie Vedder
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 23
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
Illinois
Eddie Jerome Vedder
Edward Louis Severson III
Music
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I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.
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Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.
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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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The Republicans initially sort of saw George W. Bush as a blank canvas, didn't they? It seems like they interviewed him when he was governor of Texas to see what kind of candidate he could be.
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If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.
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Worship the music, not the musicians.
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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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I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally justify taking or ruining those lives and leaving them with nothing. That, to me, is violent crime. It's certainly more violent than selling grams of pot to other adults.
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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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There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.
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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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You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
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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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I would thank God, but I don't believe in it.
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This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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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.
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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.
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