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Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.

Eddie Van Halen

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
I think Clapton is brilliant. He’s the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
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Brilliant Move Oneself Thinking
You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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Creativity Freedom Music Yourself
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.
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Couple Guitar Myself Play Stain Time
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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Hollywood Mindset Ourselves People Thinking
I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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Age Education Instrument Lesson Music Time
I have selective hearing.
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Hear Myself Selection
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.
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Fingers Hands Myself Old Start Style
Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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Appeal Big People
I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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Myself Passion Writing
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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Different Hate Situation Yourself
The one thing I do have is good ears. I don’t mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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Development Goodness Myself Perfection Record Theory
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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Average Myself Normal Ordinary Word
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.
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Connection Emotional Extension Guitar Instrument Myself Person Personal Play Spiritual
It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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Music Passion
Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Fingers Head Music Myself People Simplicity Word

Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.

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