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.
EDDIE VAN HALENMajor third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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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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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 applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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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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I’m blessed with a good pair of ears. That’s how I fooled my piano teacher. I’d watch his fingers and I’d listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that’s when I started getting my own style.
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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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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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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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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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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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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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