Quotes by Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen

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.

Brutal

Guitar

Instruments

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.

Guitar

Should

Strings

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?

Believe

Crazy

Hurt

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.

Cancer

Cockroaches

Stronger

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C’mon – Van Halen doing ‘Dancing in the Streets’? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else’s music.

Home

Song

Stupid

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?

Kids

Song

Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.

Pot

Sitting

For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge’ took a year to record; that’s why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. ‘Balance,’ on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

Balance

Hands

Years

I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!

Accepted

Bassists

I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you’re going to have friction.

Bridges

Guitar

Nuts

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Accepted

Accomplished

Add

Age

Albums

Appeals

Attitude

Average

Balance

Band

Bassists

Bears

Believe

Bending

Blessed

Bridges

Brother

Brutal

Cancer

Cockroaches

Couple

Crazy

Cutting

Doing You

Drinking

Drunk

Firsts

Fun

Guitar

Halfway There

Hands

Hearing

Heart

Hell

Helping

Home

Huge

Hurt

Imagine

Inspire

Instruments

Jam

Kids

Legacy

Long

Matter

Mean

Men

Mistake

Moving

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Quotes by Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen

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.

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.

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?

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.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C’mon – Van Halen doing ‘Dancing in the Streets’? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else’s music.

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?

Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.

For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge’ took a year to record; that’s why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. ‘Balance,’ on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!

I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you’re going to have friction.

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