Eddie Vedder Quotes

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go, 'Okay. How can I interpret these lyrics differently?' I love taking lyrics that were so close to me at a certain point in my life and then revamping them. I always want to take things to the next level.

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.