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 HALENThe 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.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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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.’
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I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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I’ll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I’m recording. If I break one I’ll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
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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.
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I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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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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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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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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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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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.
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