Eddie Van Halen Quotes

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• To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
• Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them
• Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just…
• Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a…
• I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00…
• I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built…
• ... I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top…
• If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars…
• Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts
• I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before.…
• I boil the strings so they stretch.
• Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
• A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right,…
• I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
• 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 was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things,…
• You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
• Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get…
• 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…
• Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.…

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