Eddie Vedder
I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.Collection: My Thoughts
If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?Collection: Dream
I get really worried, like if they say, 'Take vocal lessons,' or something because it's kind of like I used to really love to draw when I was a kid and then I took like an art class - because everyone said, 'Oh, you're so good, you should take a class and maybe you can be really good,' and then I went to the class and then they showed me how to use a ruler and perspective and all this stuff and it totally made me not want to do it at all.Collection: Art
It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.Collection: Feel Good
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.Collection: Fear
Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.Collection: Song
It's a mystery to me We have a greed with which we have agreed You think you have to want more than you need Until you have it all you won't be free When you want more than you have You think you need And when you think more than you want Your thoughts begin to bleed I think I need to find a bigger place 'Cause when you have more than you think You need more space Society, you're a crazy breed I hope you're not lonely without me Society, crazy and deep I hope you're not lonely without meCollection: Lonely
You have to be able to grow and move with the organism that is the music industry. You need to maintain flexibility. Ownership of your own stuff is key and then you're able to dictate on a present-terms basis what would be the most effective way to protect yourself and what you've created. You also don't want to lock yourself into a situation where a major label owns part of your touring and merchandise.Collection: Moving
I remember sitting in this pool hall with Stone and Chris and we watched - this really old, really classic pool hall - and we were sitting there and it was really rainy out and George Bush came on and started telling us about the [Gulf] war and that we were going and, and the whole thing, and there's part of that in it, when we talk about "I don't question our exsistence / I just question, our modern needs.Collection: Needs
Cannot find the comfort in this world.Collection: Comfort
Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.Collection: Girl
When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for fun? Do your friends advise you to buy essay writing example? Do not hesitate! Come after the advice of clever men and make a correct choice! We've sent mechanisms out there, and they haven't found anything. They've found different colors of sand, and rings, and gasses, but nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterward. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.Collection: Stars
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.Collection: Writing
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead.Collection: Night
Sometimes I hear news about the huge dollars involved with CEO pay and corporate-management salaries, and I'm mystified at how someone can justify taking that much at the cost of other people's livelihoods. In a bizarre way, I'm almost kind of curious, like "How can they absolve themselves and enjoy their wealth?" I don't understand it.Collection: People
Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and I get excited talking about making record artwork or working with T-shirt designs. The least exciting part for us is talking about the finances; it's like going to the dentist for us. But we at least try to do it in a creative way and put our stamp on it. I can only think that we create something that's worth the value of that dollar.Collection: Thinking
Singing someone else's songs is like keeping your clothes on.Collection: Song
Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!Collection: Pockets
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.Collection: Song
Yeah, we'll play that. You want fries with that?Collection: Play
You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.Collection: Frustration
Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.Collection: Order
I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants.I need to make room for the bassoon record.Collection: Song
I used to kind of blame someone for not being able to get through that - I'm talking about the addiction part - but I've had a few experiences recently where you don't blame the person anymore.Collection: Talking
I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.Collection: Music
I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.Collection: Liars
It just seemed like I would. I mean, I didn't know him on a daily basis -- far from it. But, in a way, I don't even feel right being here without him. It's so difficult to really believe he's gone. I still talk about him like he's still here, you know. I can't figure it out. It doesn't make any sense.Collection: Believe
I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."Collection: Ukulele
If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.Collection: War
I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.Collection: Successful
Ladies and gentleman of Florida, this is the real Jeff Ament...take a very good look because there's an imposter running around...if someone comes up to you and says he's Jeff Ament and says he wants to take your pot or wants to take you to a strip club, it's probably not him.Collection: Running
We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.Collection: Stars
Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.Collection: Waiting
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 GuaranteedCollection: Forever
I've stepped back a few times and had these crazy epiphanies that we are blessed by having Barack Obama as a candidate at this time in our history. If we were ever to have a man of color become president - and it shouldn't be about that, and it doesn't need to be, because he's qualified on all levels - but if you do think about it, just in terms of that idea of unifying people, it's a huge positive.Collection: Crazy
On bended knee is no way to be free lifting up an empty cup I ask silently that all my destinations will accept the one that's me so I can breath Circles they grow and they swallow people whole half their lives they say goodnight to wive's they'll never know got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul so it goes.Collection: Teacher
I would thank God, but I don't believe in it.Collection: Believe
It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.Collection: Community
I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.Collection: Song
One thing you might suggest to a young band is don't get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.Collection: Long
I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.Collection: Dream
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.Collection: Hard Times
I think a lot of things are written from experience, but then you become a writer and talk about other people's experience and you tell stories. I mean, you can't just tell your own story all the time.Collection: Mean
I'm totally within the music. I'M LOST.Collection: Lost
The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.Collection: Trying
I'm not a college graduate, but I don't know how George W.Bush could have truly believed that the flower of democracy was going to blossom in that part of the world, I mean Iraq - at least in part because the governments there are so tied to religion .Collection: Flower
I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.Collection: Thinking