To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
EDDIE VAN HALENA 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.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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I think Clapton is brilliant. He’s the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
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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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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.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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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 blessed with a good pair of ears. That’s how I fooled my piano teacher. I’d watch his fingers and I’d listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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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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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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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.
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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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