#cord

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'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

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows? ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#boom #exactly #had #imagine #instead

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

#anyway #asking #back #comes #did

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

#developed #ear #ears #eric #eric clapton

It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#buy #car #could #country #hit

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#divinity #erased #hand #human #human nature

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#favorite #felt #i #like #making

It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#america #any #broadcast #get #happening

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#fun #i #much #play #recording