Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let’s put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don’t.
EDDIE VAN HALEN
EDDIE VAN HALEN
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Eddie Van Halen59 quotes“Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let’s put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don’t.”
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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.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen 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.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen 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.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen I’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 HalenEddie Van Halen Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen 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?
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen The 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 HalenEddie Van Halen I boil the strings so they stretch.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen 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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