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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

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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Hollywood Mindset Ourselves People Thinking
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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Growth Listening Myself
I think Clapton is brilliant. He’s the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
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Brilliant Move Oneself Thinking
I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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Myself Normal Scheme
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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Bed Brother Dedication Music Myself Practice
It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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Music Passion
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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Average Myself Normal Ordinary Word
Some people think a song without words isn’t a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he’ll kick your ass!
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Himself People Reality Song Thinking Word
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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Beginning Mark Pattern Rhythm Yourself
There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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Creative Execution Inspirational Release
We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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Live Money Music Ourselves Simplicity
To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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Entrepreneur Hell Rule Sound Yourself
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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Different Hate Situation Yourself
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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Feeling Greatness Instrument Quality Sound Talk Yourself
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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Digital Myself Simplicity Sound Start
I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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Myself Passion Writing
I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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Age Education Instrument Lesson Music Time
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Drum Guitar Myself Son
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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Cancer Drink Hands Myself Operation Replacement
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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Generosity Music Myself Trouble
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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Guitar Interval Music Theory Wrong
I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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Acceptance Application Myself
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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Business Dreams Fame Glory Live Music Myself
A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I’m very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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Connection Emotional Extension Guitar Instrument Myself Person Personal Play Spiritual
Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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Appeal Big People
I have selective hearing.
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Hear Myself Selection
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.
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Instrument Reading Theory Universal Yourself

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