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 HALENIt’s always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you’re the same, and they hate you if you’re different.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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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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I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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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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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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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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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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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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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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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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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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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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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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