Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder is the lead singer for the band Pearl Jam.
“Son un publico...bakan”; (Pearl Jam in Santiago,Chile – 23.11.2005.)
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall through anything." - Eddie in Raleigh, 4/15/03
"Eddie sucks!" said while the crowd was screaming his name.
You can't save someone from drowning if you're treading water yourself.
A very drunk Vedder in Australia 2003 before the band starts playing Last Kiss: "This next song is [long pause] is a song."
Worship the music not the musician.
I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
War doesn't determine who's right; it determines who's left.
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.
Those who dance are called insane by those who don't hear the music.
The July 23, 1998 edition of the Seattle Times (page C3) says of Vedder: "Later he tried to keep a straight face as he mockingly confessed: 'While we were away, I found God.' He rambled on about the Bible before concluding, 'We found God. He was right in our stomachs...'"
Before playing Glorified G "We would like to dedicate this next song to our good friend and mentor... Dick Cheney!" - May 28, 2006 Camden, NJ
If little George Dubya Bush wins [the 2000 election] the band is applying for Canadian Citizenship.
In the middle of a song, Vedder gets interrupted and then says "There are these two girls flashing their tits, it's making it hard to concentrate."
“You know, punk bands now sell with one record -- their first or second record -- sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.”
Vedder has a variety of comments about God and/or belief, at one point he was saying, "When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. We've sent mechanisms out there, and they haven't found anything. They've found different colours of sand, and rings, and gasses, but nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterwards. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now."
Crowd: OLE OLE OLE OLE [Eddie on stage waiting for the crowd to settle down]"Alright...Haha.....OK....OK."[laughs and shakes his head] "They just won't stop..............[Eddie gets on guitar and starts singing Ole Ole Ole Ole]" Pavellon Olimpic Badalona, BCN September 1st 2006
"Music is a weapon of mass construction... Protests are a weapon of mass construction..." - 6/1/03 Shoreline
"You're too good to us... I don't know if we deserve it, just thank you so much... We were talking -may I speak English for a-... We were talking in the back, this has to be, as far as your voices and energy... I... of all the years I think this is the greatest audience we've ever played for... es verdad... I mean no one sings the guitar parts, for Christ's sake...' - Buenos Aires/Argentina (11/25/05)
They call you guys Generation X [pause] That's bullshit. They should call you Generation Why... or maybe Generation ZZZ, 'cause you're falling asleep.