Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let’s put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don’t.
EDDIE VAN HALENSome people think a song without words isn’t a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he’ll kick your ass!
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don’t mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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I’ve had a hip replacement, I’ve beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, ‘I’m done.’
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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I have selective hearing.
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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
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It’s always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you’re the same, and they hate you if you’re different.
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I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that’s when I started getting my own style.
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I don’t really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
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Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.
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Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I’m tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I’ve opened up my own pathology center.
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