286 Quotes by Eddie Vedder

It’s fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There’s something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

I don’t work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.

I don’t need drugs to make my life tragic.

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.

The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it’s been responsible for wars, and it shouldn’t be that way at all, it’s just the way the meaning of the word has evolved to me. I have to wonder what we did on this planet before religion.

If you’re anti-war it doesn’t mean you are ‘Pro’ one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you ‘Pro’ many thingsPro-Peace, Pro-Human, Pro-Evolution, it makes you Pro-Communication, Pro-Diplomacy, Pro-Love, Pro-Understanding, Pro-Forgiveness.

I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices – they were about my age, but they were doing it.

It’s the ones without scars – those are the people you have to watch out for...

Music’s at its best when it has a purpose.