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We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.

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Eddie Vedder
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: December 23
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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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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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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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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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I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.
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I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.
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After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
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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.
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I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants.I need to make room for the bassoon record.
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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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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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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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We've got clouds and rain, just like in Seattle .. but Sao Paulo is better.
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