You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
EDDIE VAN HALENYou’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
EDDIE VAN HALENThe name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
EDDIE VAN HALENEverything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
EDDIE VAN HALENI’ve had a hip replacement, I’ve beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, ‘I’m done.’
EDDIE VAN HALENThe piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
EDDIE VAN HALENI applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
EDDIE VAN HALENMy son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
EDDIE VAN HALENMusic 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.
EDDIE VAN HALENI took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
EDDIE VAN HALENEventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
EDDIE VAN HALENEvery song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
EDDIE VAN HALENCancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I’m tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I’ve opened up my own pathology center.
EDDIE VAN HALENSome people think a song without words isn’t a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he’ll kick your ass!
EDDIE VAN HALENA 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’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
EDDIE VAN HALENI’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
EDDIE VAN HALEN