Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol. Eddie Van Halen More Quotes by Eddie Van Halen More Quotes From Eddie Van Halen I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like. Eddie Van Halen race mean people 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 halfway-there doing-you selfish The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months. Eddie Van Halen bending guitar couple On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening. Eddie Van Halen boss delay lines 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 guitar music play I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!! Eddie Van Halen bassists accepted On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger. Eddie Van Halen attitude kids people Bass is for people who can't play guitar Eddie Van Halen guitar play people I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix. Eddie Van Halen hendrix pages grew-up I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. Eddie Van Halen piano guitar age Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass! Eddie Van Halen real song thinking I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style. Eddie Van Halen style three firsts I boil the strings so they stretch. Eddie Van Halen strings The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation. Eddie Van Halen band jam two I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part. Eddie Van Halen rocks musician stars The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records. Eddie Van Halen piano guitar mean 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. Eddie Van Halen guitar bridges nuts 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 Eddie Van Halen guitar music kids It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing. Eddie Van Halen singing writing people The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone. Eddie Van Halen legacy names long
