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 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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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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It’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.
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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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’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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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.’
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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.
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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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Cancer 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.
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I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that’s when I started getting my own style.
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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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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.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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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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