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Eddie Van Halen Quotes
Page 1 of 1Eddie Van Halen
January 26, 1955 -
Nationality: Dutch
Category: Musician
Subcategory: Dutch Musician
|  It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. |
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