I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
EDDIE VAN HALENThere’s a plaque on our wall that says we’ve sold over 65 million albums, and I don’t feel I’ve accomplished anything. I feel like I’m just getting started.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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I don’t really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
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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.
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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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Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I’m tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I’ve opened up my own pathology center.
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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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There’s a plaque on our wall that says we’ve sold over 65 million albums, and I don’t feel I’ve accomplished anything. I feel like I’m just getting started.
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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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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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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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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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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 never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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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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