Some people think a song without words isn’t a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he’ll kick your ass!
EDDIE VAN HALENIt’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.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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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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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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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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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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Holdsworth is so damned good that I can’t cop anything. I can’t understand what he’s doing. I’ve got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he’ll do it with one hand.
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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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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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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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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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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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