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.
EDDIE VAN HALENA 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.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
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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’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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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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I have selective hearing.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
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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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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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