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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

Eddie Van Halen

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Growth Listening Myself
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Hollywood Mindset Ourselves People Thinking
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Generosity Music Myself Trouble
I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Drink Myself Sound
The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Family Legacy Myself Name
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Fingers Hands Myself Old Start Style
Some people think a song without words isn’t a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he’ll kick your ass!
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Himself People Reality Song Thinking Word
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 HALEN

Cancer Drink Hands Myself Operation Replacement
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Accomplishment Album Feeling Myself Start Wall
Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Beginning Mark Pattern Rhythm Yourself
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Fingers Head Music Myself People Simplicity Word
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Cancer Hospital Immunity Myself Open Strong System
I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I’m not your average bear. I – what’s the word? I’m not – normal.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Average Myself Normal Ordinary Word
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 HALEN

Creative Execution Inspirational Release
I boil the strings so they stretch.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Myself Stretch
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Guitar Interval Music Theory Wrong

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