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?
EDDIE VAN HALENThere are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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 applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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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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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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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’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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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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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
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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.
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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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