286 Quotes by Eddie Vedder

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.

You don’t love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn’t love me. You love who you think I am. And don’t pretend that you know me. Because I don’t even know myself.

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

I’m optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

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.

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.

Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed.

War doesn’t determine who’s right, it determines who’s left.

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.