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.
EDDIE VAN HALENI’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.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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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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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let’s put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don’t.
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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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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.
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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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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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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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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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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 the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
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It’s always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you’re the same, and they hate you if you’re different.
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