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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

Eddie Van Halen

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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Inspirational Lyrics Music Myself Writing
If you have a great-sounding guitar that’s a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that’s the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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Feeling Greatness Instrument Quality Sound Talk Yourself
I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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Myself Normal Scheme
I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Business Dreams Fame Glory Live Music Myself
I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Myself Oneself Person Record Tour Voice
Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?
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Believe Color Ink Poetry Secret Thinking True
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Drum Guitar Myself Son
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Fingers Hands Myself Old Start Style
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Cancer Hospital Immunity Myself Open Strong System
I’ll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I’m recording. If I break one I’ll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Break Leaving Myself Replacement String
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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Development Goodness Myself Perfection Record Theory
Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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Guitar People Play
You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Creativity Freedom Music Yourself
There’s a plaque on our wall that says we’ve sold over 65 million albums, and I don’t feel I’ve accomplished anything. I feel like I’m just getting started.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Accomplishment Album Feeling Myself Start Wall
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.
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Myself Play Song Way Writing
Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Alcohol Complication Method
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Fame Music Path Simplicity Start
I think Clapton is brilliant. He’s the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Brilliant Move Oneself Thinking
A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that’s not right, all the strings should be off.
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Guitar Interval Music Theory Wrong
The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Couple Guitar Myself Play Stain Time
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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Cancer Drink Hands Myself Operation Replacement
Holdsworth is so damned good that I can’t cop anything. I can’t understand what he’s doing. I’ve got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he’ll do it with one hand.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Goodness Himself Hold Oneself Understand
I have selective hearing.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Hear Myself Selection
There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Creative Execution Inspirational Release
We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Live Money Music Ourselves Simplicity
I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Age Education Instrument Lesson Music Time
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Generosity Music Myself Trouble

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

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