Eddie Van Halen Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Wall, Albums, Accomplished

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• You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Notes

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• We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Simple, Musician, Matter

  Interview with David Curcurito, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2012.

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• We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Selfish, Halfway There, Doing You

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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.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Simplicity

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• I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Son, Guitar, Two

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• When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Home, Guitar, Practice

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• I'm just a normal schmo like anyone else.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Normal

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• If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Keys, Guitar, Knowing

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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.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Cancer, Stronger, Cockroaches

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• I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Stripes, Together

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• I boil the strings so they stretch.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Strings

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• I have selective hearing.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Hearing, Selective

  "Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2009.

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• I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

  Eddie Van Halen

  Cancer, Drinking, Hands

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• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Cutting, Drunk, Sound

  "Edward Van Halen Is Alive" by David Curcurito, www.esquire.com. May 2012.

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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?

  Eddie Van Halen

  Song, Kids

  Interview with David Curcurito, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2012.

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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

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Phrases, Patterns

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• A 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 Halen

  Guitar, Should, Strings

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• Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Alcohol, Overcoming, Complication

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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.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Teacher, Blessed, Piano

  "Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2009.

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• Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.

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  Brother, Party, Home

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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.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Done, Stuff, Kind

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• 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?

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  Hurt, Crazy, Believe

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• If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Guitar, Play

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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.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Average, Bears, Normal

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