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You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

Eddie Vedder

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Eddie Vedder
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 23
Guitarist
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Chicago
Illinois
Eddie Jerome Vedder
Edward Louis Severson III
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