#tart

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#covered #dancing #david #doing #else

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#before #doing #done #ever #guitar

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#feel #good #guitar #how #instrument

It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#add #along #between #could #digital

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

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 you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. ↗

— Alex Haley

#about #ancestry #earth #every #lineage

Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#carolina #creating #giving #jobs #line

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#business #company #dollar #due #home

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated. ↗

— Geri Halliwell

#get #human #important #lot #manipulated