The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. Eddie Vedder More Quotes by Eddie Vedder More Quotes From Eddie Vedder Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable. Eddie Vedder pearlsmarketingjam I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um, Eddie Vedder pearlsgrandmanames It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals. Eddie Vedder couplefunpeople I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Eddie Vedder writingsongtrying 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. Eddie Vedder circlesteacherpeople If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me. Eddie Vedder choiceswritingworld The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied. Eddie Vedder biggergrowssorrow Caffeine. The gateway drug. Eddie Vedder drugalcoholhumor There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years. Eddie Vedder levelsforeveryears I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up. Eddie Vedder connectionswantreality 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. Eddie Vedder musicianexampledream Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic. Eddie Vedder girlsorrythinking I've stepped back a few times and had these crazy epiphanies that we are blessed by having Barack Obama as a candidate at this time in our history. If we were ever to have a man of color become president - and it shouldn't be about that, and it doesn't need to be, because he's qualified on all levels - but if you do think about it, just in terms of that idea of unifying people, it's a huge positive. Eddie Vedder crazyblessedmen We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians. Eddie Vedder rocksstarstrying I don't need drugs to make my life tragic. Eddie Vedder drugrealityneeds Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that they go for the eyes first. Eddie Vedder eyefearwaiting You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change. Eddie Vedder frustrationmatureunderstanding 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. Eddie Vedder playing-musicoceanopportunity Singing someone else's songs is like keeping your clothes on. Eddie Vedder clothessingingsong When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not. Eddie Vedder parentdecisionyears
