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EDDIE VAN HALENI’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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I’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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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I 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.
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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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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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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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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It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I’m just so blessed.
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