I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
EDDIE VAN HALEN
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I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
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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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Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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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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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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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’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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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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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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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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