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 HALENMusic 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 just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I’m not your average bear. I – what’s the word? I’m not – normal.
EDDIE VAN HALENNirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
EDDIE VAN HALENYou’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
EDDIE VAN HALENThe 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 HALENWe’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
EDDIE VAN HALENI never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
EDDIE VAN HALENA 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 HALENI boil the strings so they stretch.
EDDIE VAN HALENI’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
EDDIE VAN HALENBass is for people who can’t play guitar.
EDDIE VAN HALENIt’s always about the music, never about anything else.
EDDIE VAN HALENI’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
EDDIE VAN HALENI think Clapton is brilliant. He’s the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
EDDIE VAN HALENThere are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
EDDIE VAN HALENWhen 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.
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