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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.

Eddie Van Halen

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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Guitar Interval Music Theory Wrong
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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Hollywood Mindset Ourselves People Thinking
I boil the strings so they stretch.
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Myself Stretch
I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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Myself Normal Scheme
Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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Ideas Myself Thinking
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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Break Leaving Myself Replacement String
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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Age Guitar Lesson Live Myself
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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Feeling Greatness Instrument Quality Sound Talk Yourself
I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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Myself Passion Writing
We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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Live Money Music Ourselves Simplicity
I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
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Guitar Instrument Musician Myself
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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Brilliant Move Oneself Thinking
I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Drink Myself Sound
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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Children Discover Life Music Myself Passion Wonderful
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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Bed Brother Dedication Music Myself Practice
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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Different Hate Situation Yourself

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