My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
EDDIE VAN HALENEverything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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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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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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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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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 just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I’m tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I’ve opened up my own pathology center.
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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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Some people think a song without words isn’t a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he’ll kick your ass!
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I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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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 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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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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