Eddie Vedder Quotes

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.

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.

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.

Cannot find the comfort in this world.

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

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.

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

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.

It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.

Singing someone else's songs is like keeping your clothes on.

Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.

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.

I think celebrities suck.

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?

If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same.

I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed

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.

I would thank God, but I don't believe in it.

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.

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

So much energy comes out of concerts sometimes, especially good ones that are really moving. And that energy, no matter how great the show is, it dissipates within two weeks or a month.

We've got clouds and rain, just like in Seattle .. but Sao Paulo is better.

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

I'm really high... I mean the altitude of course.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.

It's not a bad time to be me.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

Are you woman enough to be my man?

Your pot laws are great! But your gun laws are even better!

I've never been a calm, midrange type person.

I'm totally within the music. I'M LOST.

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.