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Eddie Van Halen

Read through the most famous quotes from Eddie Van Halen




I have selective hearing.


— Eddie Van Halen


#i #selective

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


#bear #consider #i #just #myself

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.


— Eddie Van Halen


#classical #guitar #guitar lessons #holland #i

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.


— Eddie Van Halen


#band #direction #i #las #las vegas

I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.


— Eddie Van Halen


#break #guitars #i #instead #just

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.


— Eddie Van Halen


#day #die #done #i #kinds

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


#blessed #ears #fingers #fooled #good

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


— Eddie Van Halen


#cut #drunk #i #out #since

I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.


— Eddie Van Halen


#going #i #record #said #tour

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.


— Eddie Van Halen


#doing #i #i always #just #same






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Did you know about Eddie Van Halen?

However Cherone soon had an amicable departure and without a lead singer Van Halen went on hiatus. He has been seen with three new Wolfgang guitars first a sunburst one then a black one which he stated he liked less than the sunburst one and now he uses a white one the best sounding one out of the three prototypes according to Ed. a pre-CBS Fender tremolo bridge (later to be a Floyd Rose bridge) and a single volume control with a knob labeled "tone".

Allan Holdsworth has described him as "Second only to Jimi Hendrix undoubtedly the most influential original and talented rock guitarist of the 20th century. He is best known as the lead guitarist keyboardist and co-founder of the eponymous hard rock band Van Halen. In 2012 Guitar World's poll named him as the greatest guitarist of all-time.

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