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I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.

Eddie Vedder

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Eddie Vedder
Age: 60
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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