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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More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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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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We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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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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I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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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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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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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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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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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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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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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.
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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 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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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let’s put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don’t.
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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.
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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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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
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