Eddie Vedder Quotes

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

There's a Kiss through-line to a lot of the music that came out of Seattle, and it hasn't been talked about a lot.

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

I never really followed grunge.

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty.

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

A lot of what attracted people to Nirvana was that they were like the people you went to high school with.

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

I have Nineties music oozing out of my pores. What made rock & roll back then is that it was uncensored. It was raw and dark. Think of 'Something in the Way,' by Nirvana - he was telling everyone how he felt.

I'd love to be the new Kurt Cobain.

I'll never forget getting my first Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chain records, and hearing that wonderful, beautiful darkness. And the rhythmic intensity, that's what attracted me more than anything else.

Nirvana was happening when I was 14, kind of the perfect age. Growing up in Anacortes, Washington, it was close enough to Seattle that it seemed like a local thing.

I am a huge fan of Nirvana and always will be.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.