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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.

Eddie Van Halen

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 HALEN

Fingers Hands Myself Old Start Style
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Digital Myself Simplicity Sound Start
Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Alcohol Complication Method
I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Early Growth Musician Myself
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
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
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Basic Blessing Goodness Kind Learning Myself Teacher
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.’
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Cancer Drink Hands Myself Operation Replacement
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
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
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Blessing Feeling Kind Man Myself People Touch Weird
Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Death Musician Rock Stardom
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
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Children Discover Life Music Myself Passion Wonderful
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Album Artist Best Goodness Listening Production
I’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Day Death Kind Music Myself

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