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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.

Eddie Van Halen

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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Guitar Interval Music Theory Wrong
The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Family Legacy Myself Name
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Development Goodness Myself Perfection Record Theory
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Business Dreams Fame Glory Live Music Myself
I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Acceptance Application Myself
I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Guitar Instrument Musician Myself
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Cancer Hospital Immunity Myself Open Strong System
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Instrument Reading Theory Universal Yourself
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Drum Guitar Myself Son
I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Myself Oneself Person Record Tour Voice
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Age Guitar Lesson Live Myself
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Bed Brother Dedication Music Myself Practice
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?
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Children Myself Oneself Song
There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Creative Execution Inspirational Release
I’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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Break Leaving Myself Replacement String
Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Ideas Myself Thinking

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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