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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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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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
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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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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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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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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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I’m blessed with a good pair of ears. That’s how I fooled my piano teacher. I’d watch his fingers and I’d listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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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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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 was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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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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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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