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 HALENCancer 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.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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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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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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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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I have selective hearing.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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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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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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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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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 took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
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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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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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