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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

Eddie Van Halen

I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that’s when I started getting my own style.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Fingers Hands Myself Old Start Style
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Guitar Interval Music Theory Wrong
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.’
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Cancer Drink Hands Myself Operation Replacement
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Connection Emotional Extension Guitar Instrument Myself Person Personal Play Spiritual
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 HALEN

Believe Color Ink Poetry Secret Thinking True
It’s always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you’re the same, and they hate you if you’re different.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Different Hate Situation Yourself
I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Myself Passion Writing
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Fame Music Path Simplicity Start
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Couple Guitar Myself Play Stain Time
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Feeling Greatness Instrument Quality Sound Talk Yourself
You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Hollywood Mindset Ourselves People Thinking
I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Guitar Instrument Musician Myself
Some people think a song without words isn’t a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he’ll kick your ass!
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Himself People Reality Song Thinking Word
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Blessing Feeling Kind Man Myself People Touch Weird
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Album Artist Best Goodness Listening Production
I’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Day Death Kind Music Myself

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