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Eddie Vedder Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.”
— Eddie Vedder, Eddie Vedder on Facebook
Tagged: Revenge, Live A Better Life, Prove yourself
“I think it's just a healthy way to be, that you're not a liability to the planet and that you're doing something positive. It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.”
— Eddie Vedder, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam
Tagged: Positivity, Earth First, Balance, Community
“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, The Believer- Interview with Eddie Vedder
Tagged: Success, Leeches, Parasites, Hangers-On
“When I first found out, I was in a hotel room in Washington, D.C., and I just tore the place to shreds. Then I just kind of sat in the rubble, which somehow felt right…[it felt] like my world at the moment.”
— Eddie Vedder, COVER STORY: He Didn't Ask for All This : Eddie Vedder always wanted his band Pearl Jam to make music that mattered. He can sometimes feel, as Kurt Cobain did, the pressure of mattering too much to his fans, but he's finding a way to deal with it.
Tagged: kurt cobain, Suicide, Washington DC
“I'm angry that George Bush got to be in the White House, and I'm angry that Gore wasn't able to be a better candidate after eight years of a great economy and being an incumbent.”
— Eddie Vedder, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam
Tagged: George W. Bush, Al Gore, White House, Anger, Economy
“I think it could be dangerous to focus on the future, because you know it’s just going to change. Again, you don’t know what the universe is going to hit you with. I find it difficult.”
— Eddie Vedder, We Spent 55 Minutes Talking With Eddie Vedder -- Here's What He Said
Tagged: dangerous, Future, Change, Universe, difficult
“I’m still at the point where I think that I get my best thinking done when I’ve got a fucking cigarette in my mouth.”
— Eddie Vedder, The Believer- Interview with Eddie Vedder
Tagged: Thinking, Fucking, cigarette
“You know, we legalized gay marriage in the state of Washington at the same time we legalized pot, and it was a great reason to celebrate!”
— Eddie Vedder, Q&A: Eddie Vedder Talks 'Lightning Bolt'
Tagged: Gay Marriage, Washington State, Legalized Marijuana
“The way we’re attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail or an email. We’re almost like lab rats.”
— Eddie Vedder, We Spent 55 Minutes Talking With Eddie Vedder -- Here's What He Said
Tagged: Smartphones, Digital Addiction, Email, Voicemail, Lab Rats
“There are certain songs that are empowering, especially for women. Maybe it’s the fact that I have little girls, but songs that are empowering—for really anybody—give you the ice cream, but they become something of value.”
— Eddie Vedder, We Spent 55 Minutes Talking With Eddie Vedder -- Here's What He Said
Tagged: Empowering, Women's Music
“Let me be as weird as I fuckin' like. It's my fuckin' life.”
— Eddie Vedder
Tagged: Weird, Fuckin, My Life
“There’s a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality—knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don’t know how many chapters are left in your book—is by living in denial.”
— Eddie Vedder, We Spent 55 Minutes Talking With Eddie Vedder -- Here's What He Said
Tagged: Finite, Reality, Endings, Denial
“When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. We've sent mechanisms out there, and they haven't found anything. They've found different colors of sand, and rings, and gases, but nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterwards. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.”
— Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam: Right Here, Right Now
Tagged: Desert, Stars, Color, Living In The Moment
“I tell you, man, when our first record came out, I was shocked how many people related to some of that stuff. Something like 'Alive,' so many people dealt with death through that song. Like people dealt with the death of love through 'Black' and so many people dealt with suicide through 'Jeremy.' The kind of letters that got through to me about those songs, some of them were just frightening. It's just so fuckin' weird. You write about this shit, and you're suddenly the spokesman for a fuckin' generation," he laughs, and it's a bitter, scary laugh, nothing funny about it at all. "Think about it, man," he says. "Any generation that would pick Kurt [Cobain] or me as its spokesman—that must be a pretty fucked up generation, don't you think? I mean, that generation must be really fucked up, man, really fuckin' fucked up...”
— Eddie Vedder, I'm Not Your Fuckin' Messiah
Tagged: kurt cobain, Pearl Jame, Jeremy, Death
“People think you are this grand person who has all their shit together because you are able to put your feelings into some songs. They write letters and come to the shows and even to the house, hoping we can fix everything for them. But we can’t…because we don't have all our shit together either. What they don't understand is that you can't save somebody from drowning if you're treading water yourself.”
— Eddie Vedder, COVER STORY: He Didn't Ask for All This : Eddie Vedder always wanted his band Pearl Jam to make music that mattered. He can sometimes feel, as Kurt Cobain did, the pressure of mattering too much to his fans, but he's finding a way to deal with it.
Tagged: Fame, celebrity, having Your shit together
“I always thought I'd go first. I don't know why I thought that. It just seemed like I would. I mean, I didn't know him on a daily basis—far from it. But, in a way, I don't even feel right being here without him. It's so difficult to really believe he's gone. I still talk about him like he's still here, you know. I can't figure it out. It doesn't make any sense. I remember when he got sick in Rome—I didn't realize then that it was actually a suicide attempt—I was in Seattle. I went out to grab something to eat and I saw the headlines. That he was in a coma. I just freaked out, man. I went home and made some phone calls, tried to find out what the fuck was going on. Then I started pacing the house and started to cry. I just kept saying, 'Don't go, man, just don't fuckin' go... just don't go.' I kept thinking, 'If he goes, I'm fucked.' You know, all these people man, all lining up to say that his death was so fucking inevitable... well, if it was inevitable for him, it's gonna be inevitable for me, too, if this continues. That's why this could be our last show in fuckin' forever as far as I'm concerned. Kurt's death has changed everything. I don't know if I can do it any more. See, people like him and me, we can't be real. It's a contradiction. We can't be these people who just write these real songs. We have to live up to the expectations of a million people. And we can't do that. And then there's a cynical fuckin' media on top of that. Fuck that, fuck 'em. All along the line, they question your fuckin' honesty. No matter what you say, no matter what you do, they think it's an angle. They think it's all a fuckin' game. Because that's all they're used to. That's what they think it is, a fuckin' game. They don't know what's real and what isn't. And when someone comes along who's trying to be real, they don't know the fuckin' difference. So if you say, 'No, I'm not playing your fuckin' game. I want out... I'm not doing this, I'm not doing that...,' they still think you're part of it. They just can't accept that you don't want to be part of it, that you were never part of it. They just think it's an angle. Some kind of fuckin' angle. And that makes it so hard for somebody who's just trying to be honest. So fuck it. And another thing, we never talked about this but it's like you were saying although we were very different people, there was probably a lot we had in common. We had similar backgrounds, yeah, things that happened with our families and shit... I think that's something that comes out in what we wrote in our songs, definitely. It is kinda similar sometimes. But what makes it more similar is the way people responded to what we wrote and sang about, the intense identification. And I think it was maybe a shock to both of us that so many people were going through the same things. I mean, they understood so completely what we were talking about. And this was shit we thought only he and I were ever gonna have to deal with. Because we kinda wrote these songs for ourselves really. Then all of a sudden, there's all these other people who connect with them and you're suddenly the spokesman for a fuckin' generation. Can you imagine that! A...spokesman...for a...generation.”
— Eddie Vedder, I'm Not Your Fuckin' Messiah
Tagged: Spokesman, kurt cobain
“These pop songs almost feel like tabloid journalism, in a way. It's crap that people seem to like. And I don't know if it has meaning. I don't know if one of the pop songs of the summer has any fiber in it. People are consuming it, and is it healthy? I don't know. Maybe it's some kind of way of taking themselves away from their problems. Maybe there's some healthy property or some restorative property that I'm not receiving. It seems like it has a really high fructose content.”
— Eddie Vedder, Q&A: Eddie Vedder Talks 'Lightning Bolt'
Tagged: Pop Songs, Music Industry, Vapid, High Fructose
“There was a lot of stuff that got said, but none of it really matters. And I like to think he may have had second thoughts about some of the things he said, you know... I mean there's a person we both knew, who told me that Kurt asked about me a lot, like picked their brains about me, this person who knew us both. And I thought that was cool. That made me feel good, you know. Because so much bullshit was getting written about us. And we talked, we talked a couple of times. And this one time, he told me flat-out, just delivered me a whole paragraph on the respect he had for what I did, and he realized it was pure. This was at the MTV Awards. 'Tears in Heaven' was playing in the background, we were slow dancing. I remember going out surfing the next morning and remembering how good that moment felt and thinking, 'Fuck, man, if only we hadn't been so afraid of each other...' Because we were going through so much of the same shit. If only we'd talked, maybe we could have helped each other.”
— Eddie Vedder
Tagged: MTV Awards, Tears in Heaven, kurt cobain, Media
“I’m not talking about myself here, but I think we should all realize sensitive people—and I’m not talking about myself—in this day and age, on this planet, with the multitude of media input and psychological bombardment, have to be really careful. They’re going to have to find some way to create some kind of forcefield in their lives to survive this thing and keep a clear head. It can be done in some kind of healthy way, but I think sensitive people have to be careful.”
— Eddie Vedder, We Spent 55 Minutes Talking With Eddie Vedder -- Here's What He Said
Tagged: Digital Overload, Media, Psychological Bombardment, Sensitive People
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