I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
EDDIE VAN HALENNirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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A good producer brings out the best in the artist he’s working with. You shouldn’t be able to listen to something and say, ‘So-and-so produced this album.
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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 don’t really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
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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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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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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that’s not right, all the strings should be off.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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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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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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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 just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I’m not your average bear. I – what’s the word? I’m not – normal.
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