“Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It’s real easy to fall.”
“I’d like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn’t being hijacked by computer technology. There’s no reason there can’t be a paper trail on those machines.”
“I’ve got my indignation but I’m pure in all my thoughts.”
“I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich – and then you get back on the highway. I don’t want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.”
“I’m Eddie Vedder and I sing. I do.”
“It’s saying, just stop, and be together. Don’t talk now, just breathe and feel each other’s presence.”
“War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.”
“It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.”
“The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow’s denied.”
” I know I was born and I know that I’ll die…
The in between is mine.
I Am Mine”
“It’s the ones without scars – those are the people you have to watch out for.”
“It’s an art to live with pain… mix the light into gray.”
“Are you woman enough to be my man?”
“Singing someone else’s songs is like keeping your clothes on.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I don’t trust nobody, especially when they say something good.”
“The love received is the love that is saved.”
“I would thank God, but I don’t believe in it… It’s like a movie that was way too popular. It’s a story that’s been told too many times and just doesn’t mean anything… All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.”
“I wish I was the verb ‘to trust’ and never let you down.”
“It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It’s like… it’s really terrible.”
“Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.”
“The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.”
“Darkness comes in waves…tell me, why invite it to stay?”
“We’re not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We’re trying to be good musicians”
“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.”
“When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn’t play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.”
“When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn’t us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.”
“I’ll ride the wave, where it takes me!”
“He who forgets will be destined to remember.”
“Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!”
“Society, you’re a crazy breed.”
“I’m trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.”
“I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.”
“I’ve never been a calm, midrange type person.”
“I’m optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.”
“People on death row, the treatment of animals, women’s right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!”
“Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.”
“The smallest oceans still make big big waves.”
“It’s understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record creates a healthy opportunity to process some of these emotions rather than deny them.”
“I don’t want to think I want to feel!”
“Music’s at its best when it has a purpose.”
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