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.
EDDIE VAN HALENI just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I’m not your average bear. I – what’s the word? I’m not – normal.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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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.’
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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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’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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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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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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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 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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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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I have selective hearing.
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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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I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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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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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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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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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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Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
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