I’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.
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.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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.
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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I have selective hearing.
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I’m blessed with a good pair of ears. That’s how I fooled my piano teacher. I’d watch his fingers and I’d listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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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 never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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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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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
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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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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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