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EDDIE VAN HALENI’ll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I’m recording. If I break one I’ll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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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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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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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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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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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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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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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When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
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You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
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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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It’s all about sound. It’s that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it’s digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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