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.
EDDIE VAN HALENI 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.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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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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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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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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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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Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?
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I have selective hearing.
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The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
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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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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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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.
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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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We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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