286 Quotes by Eddie Vedder

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...

It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

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.

Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.

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

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

Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain to my teachers why I wasn't keeping up. I'd fall asleep and things in class and they'd lecture me about the reality of their classroom. I said, 'You want to see my reality?' I opened up my backpack to where you usually keep your pencils. That's where I kept my bills... electric bills, rent... That was my reality.