As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months. Eddie Vedder More Quotes by Eddie Vedder More Quotes From Eddie Vedder I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good. Eddie Vedder trust-nobody dont-trust If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place. Eddie Vedder band going-away should I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you. Eddie Vedder successful people thinking I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it. Eddie Vedder light taken beautiful Are you woman enough to be my man? Eddie Vedder enough men Cannot find the comfort in this world. Eddie Vedder this-world comfort world I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of. Eddie Vedder audience proud sake Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect. Eddie Vedder cocky competition healthy Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling Eddie Vedder breathing flesh believe Your pot laws are great! But your gun laws are even better! Eddie Vedder gun law pot Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain to my teachers why I wasn't keeping up. I'd fall asleep and things in class and they'd lecture me about the reality of their classroom. I said, 'You want to see my reality?' I opened up my backpack to where you usually keep your pencils. That's where I kept my bills... electric bills, rent... That was my reality. Eddie Vedder teacher reality fall Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads. Eddie Vedder minutes humans waiting 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. Eddie Vedder guitar typewriters strong Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy. Eddie Vedder untamed energy long War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on. Eddie Vedder hurt war fall I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together. Eddie Vedder ukulele dream song No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts. Eddie Vedder bags war people It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible. Eddie Vedder awful terrible feel-good It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've achieved as far as just spending time with people you love, and doing things like painting. Eddie Vedder appreciate order people I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process. Eddie Vedder hard-times littles trying
