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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

Eddie Van Halen

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Eddie Van Halen
Age: 65 †
Born: 1955
Born: January 26
Died: 2020
Died: October 6
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It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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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 slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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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.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
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Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them
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Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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