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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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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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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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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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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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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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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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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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