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I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.
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I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.
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I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
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I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.
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I'm being a dad and a good husband.
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When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.
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Solos I kind of couldn't care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care most about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.
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It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.
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Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.
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My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.
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There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.
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I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.
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When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.
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Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
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I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.
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Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.
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18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".