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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

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
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

Goodness Himself Hold Oneself Understand
It’s always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you’re the same, and they hate you if you’re different.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Different Hate Situation Yourself
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Generosity Music Myself Trouble
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Development Goodness Myself Perfection Record Theory
It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Music Passion
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
I boil the strings so they stretch.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Myself Stretch
I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I’m not your average bear. I – what’s the word? I’m not – normal.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Average Myself Normal Ordinary Word
When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Growth Listening Myself
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 HALEN

Digital Myself Simplicity Sound Start
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Drum Guitar Myself Son
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Age Guitar Lesson Live Myself
We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Live Money Music Ourselves Simplicity
To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Entrepreneur Hell Rule Sound Yourself
I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Myself Passion Writing

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