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.
EDDIE VAN HALENA 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.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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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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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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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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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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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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It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I’m just so blessed.
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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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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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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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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 grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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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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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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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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