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Holdsworth is so damned good that I can’t cop anything. I can’t understand what he’s doing. I’ve got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he’ll do it with one hand.

Eddie Van Halen

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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Feeling Greatness Instrument Quality Sound Talk Yourself
You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Music Note Yourself
Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Bed Brother Dedication Music Myself Practice
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Connection Emotional Extension Guitar Instrument Myself Person Personal Play Spiritual
I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Acceptance Application Myself
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Blessing Feeling Kind Man Myself People Touch Weird
Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Fingers Head Music Myself People Simplicity Word
Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Beginning Mark Pattern Rhythm Yourself
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Fame Music Path Simplicity Start
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Inspirational Lyrics Music Myself Writing
You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Hollywood Mindset Ourselves People Thinking
The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Couple Guitar Myself Play Stain Time
I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Myself Passion Writing
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Basic Blessing Goodness Kind Learning Myself Teacher
I’ve had a hip replacement, I’ve beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, ‘I’m done.’
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Cancer Drink Hands Myself Operation Replacement
I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Early Growth Musician Myself

Holdsworth is so damned good that I can’t cop anything. I can’t understand what he’s doing. I’ve got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he’ll do it with one hand.

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Holdsworth is so damned good that I can’t cop anything. I can’t understand what he’s doing. I’ve got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he’ll do it with one hand.

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