Eddie Van Halen Quotations

Edward Lodewijk Van Halen (born January 26, 1955) is a virtuoso guitarist and a founding member of the hard rock band Van Halen.

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Probably the only good, honest job I've had would be a paper route.
The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

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Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7pm to party and get laid, and when he'd come back at 3am, I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years — I still do that
- Eddie Van Halen in April 1996, in an interview with Guitar World, when asked about how he went from playing his first open A chord to playing "Eruption" http://www.guitarworld.com/allaccess/interviews/1996-04-corganvh.html

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Eddie was talking with Kurt Loder on MTV's Famous Last Words show circa 1991.

"I don't like doing interviews, I don't like doing what I'm doing right now. I'd rather be at home playing my guitar"

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I hate to talk smack about anyone in the band or whatever, but, y'know, Eddie, you know, he's still doing a bit of drinking and everything. There were nights where it was kind of like a rollercoaster, up or down, and myself, I would have liked to have seen him totally clean up if we were gonna take this further.
- Michael Anthony a band member of Van Halen http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsite mID=36475