I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I’m not your average bear. I – what’s the word? I’m not – normal.
EDDIE VAN HALENI have selective hearing.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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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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Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
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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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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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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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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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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 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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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
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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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