Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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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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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.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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I think Clapton is brilliant. He’s the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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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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