1. People
    2.  › 
  2. Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder photo

Eddie Vedder Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“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
“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
“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
“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
loading next page...