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"It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it."
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"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."
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"Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded."
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"The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind."
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"Guitar playing isn't really for everybody."
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"I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway."
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"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
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"Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school."
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"I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!"
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"I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument."
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"I never liked mellow sounding guitar."
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"Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new."
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"I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa."
Kids
"If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape."
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"When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package."
Gold
"We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby."
Time
"I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being."
Being
"I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life."
Life
"I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff."
Blood
"I would like to enlighten people."
People
"To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do."
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