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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

Topics: Bomb Covered Dancing David Doing Else Feeling Had Halen Half Home Idea Lee Like Music My Own Own Playing Rather Someone Song Songs Started Streets Stupid Successful Than Van Van Halen Way Way Home Were Would You

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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

~Eddie Van Halen

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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

Topics: Accomplished Albums Anything Feel Getting Getting Started Just Like Million Our Over Says Sold Started Wall I Feel I Feel Like

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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.

~Eddie Van Halen

Topics: Brain Cool Fingers Happens Jerk Just Like Long Make Means Music Normal People Pop Popular Short Simply Who Word Work

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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

~Eddie Van Halen

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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?

~Eddie Van Halen

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It's always about the music, never about anything else.

~Eddie Van Halen

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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

~Eddie Van Halen

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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

Topics: Became Before Doing Done Ever Guitar Had Kinds Off Part Playing Pulling Started Strings Stuff Tapping Weird Which

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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.

~Eddie Van Halen

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Musician

Born: January 26th, 1955

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