Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts
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I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built one myself ... I wanted a Gibson type of sound but with a Strat vibrato .. I went to town painting it and I put three pickups back in, but they don't work - only the rear one works...
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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...
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You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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Jimmy Page is an excellent producer. Led Zeppelin I and II are classics. As a player he's very good in the studio, but I've never seen him play well live. He's sloppy. He plays like he's got a broken hand and he's two years old. If you put out a good album and play like a two year old, what's the purpose?
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Bass is for people who can't play guitar...
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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.
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I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top end of it whenever I hear it, I always think, Man I could've played it better ... but I like the way it sounds. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that before.
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Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.
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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
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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.
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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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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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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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I'm just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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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
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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.