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" Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable. "
Eddie Vedder
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" I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk. "
Eddie Vedder
Risk
You
Think
" When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't. "
Eddie Vedder
Waiting
World
Child
" I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us. "
Eddie Vedder
Face
Beauty
Joy
" The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this. "
Eddie Vedder
Music
Band
Legend
" There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful. "
Eddie Vedder
Moments
Me
Beautiful
" I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. "
Eddie Vedder
Chain
Negative
Parenting
" 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. "
Eddie Vedder
You
Better
Work
" It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs. "
Eddie Vedder
Chicago
Chicago Cubs
Fan
" 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
People
Other
Kind
" You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment. "
Eddie Vedder
You
Great
Down
" We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives. "
Eddie Vedder
Roll
Someone
Woman
" You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world. "
Eddie Vedder
Know
World
Rock
" 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
World
Choices
Writing
" I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine. "
Eddie Vedder
Days
Imagine
Know
" As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months. "
Eddie Vedder
More
Young
Educated
" People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.' "
Eddie Vedder
Work
Writing
You
" It's not a bad time to be me. "
Eddie Vedder
Me
Time
Bad
" Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to. "
Eddie Vedder
Life
Me
Door
" 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. "
Eddie Vedder
Play
Guitar
Got
" 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. "
Eddie Vedder
Us
Just
Room
" People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies. "
Eddie Vedder
Discipline
Politics
Life
" 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. "
Eddie Vedder
Other
Months
President
" I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option. "
Eddie Vedder
Music
Great
Writing
" I was around nine when a babysitter snuck 'Who's Next' onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection. "
Eddie Vedder
Music
Rock
Parents
" 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! "
Eddie Vedder
People
Women
America
" 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
Life
Music
Nature
" When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other. "
Eddie Vedder
Understanding
Better
World
" After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk. "
Eddie Vedder
Punk
Than
New
" Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough. "
Eddie Vedder
Problem
Seattle
Early
" 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. "
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