I boil the strings so they stretch.
EDDIE VAN HALENMajor third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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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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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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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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I’ll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I’m recording. If I break one I’ll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
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