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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time. ↗

— Matthew Hale

#accomplish #business #economize #learn #more

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats. ↗

— Alex Van Halen

#brother #each #eddie #else #guitarist

A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.' ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#album #artist #best #brings #good

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#brings #building #could #done #effects

Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#any #before #being #big #could

I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#acoustic #acoustic guitar #along #ask #beat

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

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#even #help #i #i can #kid

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

#back #band #cause #chorus #come

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