You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
EDDIE VAN HALENYou only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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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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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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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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We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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It’s all about sound. It’s that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it’s digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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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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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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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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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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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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