286 Quotes by Eddie Vedder

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.

You can’t be perfect. You can’t be the perfect father. You can’t be the perfect singer.

You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you’re gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you’re gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he’ll get the girl he’ll only get the mechanic.

This is still a young man’s game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock’n’roll.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.

I’ve got my indignation but I’m pure in all my thoughts.

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn’t us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.

Dream the dreams of other men, you’ll be no ones rival.