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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

Eddie Van Halen

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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Hollywood Mindset Ourselves People Thinking
It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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Music Passion
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?
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Believe Color Ink Poetry Secret Thinking True
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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Myself Play Song Way Writing
To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Entrepreneur Hell Rule Sound 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.
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Fingers Head Music Myself People Simplicity Word
We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Live Money Music Ourselves Simplicity
Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
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Beginning Mark Pattern Rhythm Yourself
I have selective hearing.
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Hear Myself Selection
I’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Day Death Kind Music Myself
A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I’m very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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Connection Emotional Extension Guitar Instrument Myself Person Personal Play Spiritual
I boil the strings so they stretch.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Myself Stretch
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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Creative Execution Inspirational Release
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.
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Generosity Music Myself Trouble
Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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Guitar People Play
The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
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Family Legacy Myself Name

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