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I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.

Eddie Van Halen

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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Children Discover Life Music Myself Passion Wonderful
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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Fame Music Path Simplicity Start
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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Day Death Kind Music Myself
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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Basic Blessing Goodness Kind Learning Myself Teacher
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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Instrument Reading Theory Universal Yourself
We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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Live Money Music Ourselves Simplicity
I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Drink Myself Sound
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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Band Direction Himself Myself Try
It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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Music Passion
If you have a great-sounding guitar that’s a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that’s the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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Feeling Greatness Instrument Quality Sound Talk Yourself
Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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Appeal Big People
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
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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Album Artist Best Goodness Listening Production
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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Cancer Hospital Immunity Myself Open Strong System
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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Children Myself Oneself Song
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
You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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Creativity Freedom Music Yourself
You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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Music Note Yourself
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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Guitar Interval Music Theory Wrong
I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
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Guitar Instrument Musician Myself
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
The one thing I do have is good ears. I don’t mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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Development Goodness Myself Perfection Record Theory
I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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Age Education Instrument Lesson Music Time
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.
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Accomplishment Album Feeling Myself Start Wall
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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Inspirational Lyrics Music Myself Writing
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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Different Hate Situation Yourself
I boil the strings so they stretch.
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Myself Stretch

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