Eddie Vedder Quotations | Page 2

You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

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.

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.

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

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

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

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 never been a calm, midrange type person.