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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
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I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.
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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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Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.
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I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.
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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.
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Singing someone else's songs is like keeping your clothes on.
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I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
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The love received is the love that is saved.
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The nice thing about money is that you can do good things with it. I still feel like if something needs to be done or we need to raise money for someone on death row, we can find ways to do it.
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At some point, when you read about this factual information that comes out in The New Zealand Herald and it's barely mentioned in The New York Times, then I think you've got to question where this is being manipulated, and where the filters are.
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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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If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.
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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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I think celebrities suck.
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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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