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.
EDDIE VAN HALENBest 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?
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Bass is for people who can’t play 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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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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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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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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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’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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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 grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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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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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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