If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
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Eddie Van Halen Quote
“I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.”
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