Eddie Vedder Quotes

You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

The love received is the love that is saved.

I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

I don't want to think I want to feel!

It's the ones without scars - those are the people you have to watch out for.

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Society, you're a crazy breed.

Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.

Worship the music, not the musicians.

Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

I would do anything to be around music. You don't even have to pay me.

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.

Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

Yeah, we'll play that. You want fries with that?

Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

i change by not changing at all

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.

The nice thing about money is that you can do good things with it. I still feel like if something needs to be done or we need to raise money for someone on death row, we can find ways to do it.

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.

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

I used to kind of blame someone for not being able to get through that - I'm talking about the addiction part - but I've had a few experiences recently where you don't blame the person anymore.

Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

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.

Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.

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.

I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.