Eddie Van Halen Quotes

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

Eddie Van Halen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: January 26, 1955

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Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.

John Catsimatidis

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The academic Left has a long history of taking the idea of 'false consciousness' seriously.

Tom Tancredo

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When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. 'High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college.' But it's true - as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.

Rosalind Wiseman

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In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

Michael Pollan

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I used to be one of those guys with a lot of angst, you know? I just don't anymore. I'm not angst-ridden anymore. I've faced reality of what I am and what I have to do in life.

Michael Madsen

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To affirm that God is God is to want to live in a particular way.

Miroslav Volf

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The idea is not to restructure the economy as much as to seize the opportunities available that we didn't address before.

Mohammad bin Salman

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I am funny. No one else thinks I am funny. But I am funny.

Lorraine Bracco

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I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.

Jonathan Winters

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I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

Christopher Walken

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There's a small amount of super-wealthy people that want to maintain their billions and billions of dollars. Those are the people who are really making the decisions.

Conor Oberst

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I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

Chuck Connors

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