The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
EDDIE VAN HALENSome people think a song without words isn’t a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he’ll kick your ass!
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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I don’t really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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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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There’s a plaque on our wall that says we’ve sold over 65 million albums, and I don’t feel I’ve accomplished anything. I feel like I’m just getting started.
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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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I’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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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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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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A good producer brings out the best in the artist he’s working with. You shouldn’t be able to listen to something and say, ‘So-and-so produced this album.
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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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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.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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