I’ve had a hip replacement, I’ve beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, ‘I’m done.’
EDDIE VAN HALENI never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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Holdsworth is so damned good that I can’t cop anything. I can’t understand what he’s doing. I’ve got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he’ll do it with one hand.
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Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.
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We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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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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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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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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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 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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A 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.
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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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I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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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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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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