Eddie Vedder Quotes

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Music will bring you through... It brought me through.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

People come up to me and tell me how they were in a dark place and our music helped them out. It's mind-blowing. It's not just 'Rock Lobster' or 'Love Shack' - there's much more there.

I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.

Over the years, people have often said to us that they were going through some horrible thing in their life - maybe the worst thing that had ever happened, or that they could think would ever happen - and that, somehow, in that state, we made them laugh. And I was like, 'That's a wonderful calling.'

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

People have responded to my stories so well. They come up after a show and say things like, 'Your album really helped me,' or 'I have stage four cancer. I'm terminally ill.' Somebody told me it gave them the courage to die.

I think that's what it is with rock music. It helps you hang tough, I guess.

You probably can overcome what you're going through from listening to my music.

I've gone through some dark times, and at those times, my tattoos have helped and guided me through.

In the worst of times, music is a promise that times are meant to be better.

I fell in love with music because it gave me an escape, it gave me strength, and it gave me confidence.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

Every single day, I get letters - very moving, overwhelming letters - testifying how much my books have meant to people in times of crisis in their lives, when they were very ill, say. If I ever doubted that writing could play an important part in people's lives, I don't doubt that now.

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.