Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
EDDIE VAN HALENI was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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I have selective hearing.
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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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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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It’s all about sound. It’s that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it’s digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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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 about the music, never about anything else.
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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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Some people think a song without words isn’t a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he’ll kick your ass!
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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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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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A good producer brings out the best in the artist he’s working with. You shouldn’t be able to listen to something and say, ‘So-and-so produced this album.
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When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
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