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Marthinus van Schalkwyk

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HENRY VAN DYKE When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially...
EDDIE VAN HALEN On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
EDDIE VAN HALEN If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the wo...
EDDIE VAN HALEN And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of cr...
EDDIE VAN HALEN When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it a...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started d...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from ev...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's always about the music, never about anything else.
EDDIE VAN HALEN A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiri...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like i...
EDDIE VAN HALEN The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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