This is a page dedicated to all the wise words spoken by our adored King Eddie. They might have been said at a concert, in an interview (when he did them), or just random thoughts, spoken to whoever. Enjoy.
"They want you to be a leader, they want you to be a role model. They want your fucking soul!"
"I don't need drugs to make my life tragic."
"I'm not your fucking messiah!!" (that's not necessarily true, Ed!)
"If you trust me at all, if you want to listen to me at all -
but you certainly don't have to. Speaking from experience I can tell you that things change. You can belive me you don't have to. They probably won't change unless you make them. The best way to change something that's around you, something you don't like, is to change yourself. I don't think you want other people changing you, I think the only person who can change you is yourself. So if you ain't happy, if you're reading magazines
about Generation Xs and thinking 'Yah, I'm one of them' - Well
fuck that. Don't let anybody tell you who you are. No...no. No one can tell me who I am. I can tell you who I am but that would be a long story. I could tell you who I am, it wouldn't fit in a rolling stone, it wouldn't fit in a video, it wouldn't fit - it's my life. It's your life. You are the only one who knows who you are. I hope you know who you are. If you don't know who you are, figure it out because you are somebody. And I'm
probably stating the obvious, but I just thought I'd do it
anyway. So if you feel like you've got a piece of duct tape on your mouth, if you feel like you can't speak -take it off. Speak up. Speak your mind. Shout it out. Let 'em hear ya. Shout it out."
" Sometimes I wish that Kurt and I had been able
to, like, sit in the basement a few nights and just play stupid
songs together."
"I felt it was a real honor that people said that we
were their favorite band. People should know that meant a lot to me."
"The only thing that was actually positive in the old
days was getting to see a band I liked."
"A lot of times, music is like a wave, so once it
starts, you get caught up in it."
"I basically don’t want anyone tell me any lies. I
spent my life living with fucking lies, and I don’t want to
believe in somebody’s music and find out it’s a fucking lie."
"Sometimes when I see my face taking up a whole page in a
magazine, I hate that guy."
"I am a donut."
"If I hear one more song where it's quiet on the verse and then they hit a fuzz box on the chorus, I'm going to have to kill someone."
"Maybe I never wanted to be a pop star. Who wants somebody watching when you put out the garbage?"
"My folks are very proud of me, I'm thankful that they've given me a lifetime's worth of material to write about."
"My relationship with the band began as a love affair on the phone with Jeff."
"But if you looked at his eyes, man, there was an intensity in what he was doing. That was his belief in himself." -Jeff about Eddie
"I'm not up there playing to get women. I'm not up there playing to get money. I'm not interested in that."
"If it wasn't for music, I would have shot myself in front of that classroom."
"The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. Be stronger than those people."
"It's just so fuckin' weird. You write about this shit, and you're suddenly the spokesman for a fuckin' generation."
"A lot of times, music is like a wave, so once it starts, you get caught up in it."
"If I can raise my hand and speak out for some of these people who don't have a voice at the moment, then I almost feel a responsibility."
"The whole point is that we're making music, we're actually feeling something. And people can sense that."
"Hopefully, people will continue to extend me the benefit of the doubt. If not...well, I've gotten a lot, and I appreciate it all."
"I don't feel like people relate to me as a normal human."
Most of the quotes above were taken from the book "None Too Fragile", by Martin Clarke. If you can't find it anywhere near you, let me know and I'd be happy to get it for you. diawhitey@hotmail.com
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This is a page dedicated to all the wise words spoken by our adored King Eddie. They might have been said at a concert, in an interview (when he did them), or just random thoughts, spoken to whoever. Enjoy.