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.
EDDIE VAN HALENIt’s always about the music, never about anything else.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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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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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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I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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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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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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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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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
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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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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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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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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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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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