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" The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy. "
Eddie Vedder
Confusion
Weakness
Doubt
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" After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk. "
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" If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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! "
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" It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. "
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" The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. "
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" 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. "
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" 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 e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times. "
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" I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine. "
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" 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. "
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Rock
Parents
" I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. "
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" I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque. "
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" It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs. "
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Chicago Cubs
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" 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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Baseball
Like
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" It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism. "
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" 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. "
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" The love received is the love that is saved. "
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" 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. "
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" Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall. "
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" You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer. "
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" The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting. "
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" Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it. "
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