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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

Eddie Van Halen

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I’m very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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Connection Emotional Extension Guitar Instrument Myself Person Personal Play Spiritual
You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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Creativity Freedom Music Yourself
I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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Acceptance Application Myself
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
Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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Appeal Big People
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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Myself Play Song Way Writing
I boil the strings so they stretch.
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Myself Stretch
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
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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Fingers Hands Myself Old Start Style
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Drum Guitar Myself Son
You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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Music Note Yourself
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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Business Dreams Fame Glory Live 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
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
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
It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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Music Passion

You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

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