I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
EDDIE VAN HALENThe 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.
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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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that’s when I started getting my own style.
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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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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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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 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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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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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I’m not your average bear. I – what’s the word? I’m not – normal.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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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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