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Eddie Van Halen

Read through the most famous quotes from Eddie Van Halen




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


#box #delay #happening #i #line

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.


— Eddie Van Halen


#family #go #going #gone #halen

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.


— Eddie Van Halen


#go #how #instrument #learn #other

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


#because #bending #breakthrough #couple #every

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.


— Eddie Van Halen


#creative process #execution #finally #first #inspiration

There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.


— Eddie Van Halen


#albums #anything #feel #getting #getting started

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.


— Eddie Van Halen


#clark #dave #five #funky #going

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.


— Eddie Van Halen


#comes #down #even #fame #halen

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.


— Eddie Van Halen


#entered #family #go #halen #hollywood

I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'


— Eddie Van Halen


#cancer #done #drinking #had #hand






About Eddie Van Halen

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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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