Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
EDDIE VAN HALENI 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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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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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’m blessed with a good pair of ears. That’s how I fooled my piano teacher. I’d watch his fingers and I’d listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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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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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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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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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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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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There’s a plaque on our wall that says we’ve sold over 65 million albums, and I don’t feel I’ve accomplished anything. I feel like I’m just getting started.
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that’s a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that’s the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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