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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

~Eddie Van Halen

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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

~Eddie Van Halen

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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.

~Eddie Van Halen

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I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

~Eddie Van Halen

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If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

~Eddie Van Halen

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It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

~Eddie Van Halen

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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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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

~Eddie Van Halen

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I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.

~Eddie Van Halen

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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

~Eddie Van Halen

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Musician

Born: January 26th, 1955

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