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Eddie Vedder (born Edward Louis Severson III; December 23, 1964) is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter best known as a member of the rock band Pearl Jam, with whom he performs lead vocals and is one of three guitarists. He is known for his powerful baritone vocals. He also appeared as a guest vocalist in Temple of the Dog, the one-off tribute band dedicated to the late singer Andrew Wood.

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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice.

Nice, Three, Times, Two, Week

If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.

Band, Bands, Going Away, Hope, Like, Should

If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.

Music, Nature, Ocean, Opportunity, Playing, Playing Music

It’s a song about first relationships and letting go. It’s very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth’s gravitational pull and where it’s going to take people and how they’re going to grow. I’ve heard it said that you can’t really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It’s a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can’t have forever.

Earths, Heard, Letting Go, Pull, Song, Unrequited Love

I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.

Trust Nobody, Don'T Trust, Say, Trust, Good, Nobody

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

People, Watches, Scar, Watch, Ones

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.

Breathe, Mean, Song, Trying

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

Art, Attitude, Life, Listen, Serves, Song

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

Marketing, Jam, Pearls, Conversations, Pearl

I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally justify taking or ruining those lives and leaving them with nothing. That, to me, is violent crime. It's certainly more violent than selling grams of pot to other adults.

Grams, Leaving, Numbers, People, Skirt, Understand

I didn't respond to the kind of sarcastic tone. It felt like some of the Sarah Palin speech was written as though it were a Saturday Night Live newscast. Maybe that's because she looks very similar. . . She's got her Tina Fey thing going.

Kind, Like, Night, Sarcastic, Tina

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.

Believe, Gone, Like, Make, Mean, Seemed

So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

44Th, Kids, Lining, Months, Obama, President

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.

Record, Room, Song, Songs, Writing, Years

At some point, when you read about this factual information that comes out in The New Zealand Herald and it's barely mentioned in The New York Times, then I think you've got to question where this is being manipulated, and where the filters are.

Factual, Filters, Mentioned, New York, Read, Thinking

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.

Matter, May, Pointed, Seeds, Wish

So much energy comes out of concerts sometimes, especially good ones that are really moving. And that energy, no matter how great the show is, it dissipates within two weeks or a month.

Energy, Matter, Moving, Ones, Two, Weeks

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

History, Life, Move, Moves, Moving, Moving Forward

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.

Dad, Gonna, Kids, Mom, Think

Are you woman enough to be my man?

Enough, Man, Men, Woman

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