To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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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.
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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.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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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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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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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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Holdsworth is so damned good that I can’t cop anything. I can’t understand what he’s doing. I’ve got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he’ll do it with one hand.
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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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