Eddie Vedder Quotes

When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.

I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

I'll never forget when I was, like, 17, and 'Highway to Hell' came on the radio, and I was like, 'Dude, listen to that guy's voice!'

I don't know a lot of Kasabian's music. I am into rock music but I don't know their stuff.

I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.

I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.

Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

You had to pick something like Blue Suede Shoes because it's the flagship of the Sun label, but then I wanted to dig down and find something like Rakin' and Scrapin'.

Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.

It's Only Rock and Roll.

This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it. I'm 24 years old, I've got a load a money, what am I gonna do, sit at home and twiddle me thumbs? No. I'm gonna go out and 'ave it.

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way.

Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

How much did Jim Morrison know?

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.