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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More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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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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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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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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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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I have selective hearing.
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I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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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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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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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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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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