More Quotes by Eddie Vedder
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.
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.
War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.
Music's at its best when it has a purpose.
Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!
It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.
Worship the music, not the musicians.
Society, you're a crazy breed.
I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are.
