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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
Eddie Trunk
Love
Quality
Every
Melody
Some
About
Vocal
Fact
Open
Like
Genre
Metal
Got
Semblance
I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
Eddie Trunk
Great
Me
Wind
Think
Books
Saw
Out
Throw
Write
Put
Like
Caution
Artists
Autobiographies
Them
Really
Who
I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.
Eddie Van Halen
Funny
Music
You
People
Election
Charts
Like
Well
Course
How
Just
Want
Formula
Race
Mean
Them
Billboard
Show
Playing
Competitive
Olympics
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.
Eddie Van Halen
Music
Home
You
Song
Feeling
Half
Stupid
Own
Else
Dancing
Way
Way Home
Van
Would
Van Halen
Someone
My Own
Rather
David
Had
Songs
Idea
Like
Halen
Doing
Were
Covered
Lee
Than
Successful
Roth
Bomb
Streets
Started
Playing
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.
Eddie Van Halen
Work
Music
People
Word
Long
Fingers
Simply
Like
Make
Brain
Normal
Short
Just
Happens
Pop
Means
Who
Cool
Popular
Jerk
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.
Eddie Van Halen
Our
Sold
Says
Feel
Over
Like
Accomplished
Wall
Getting
Just
Getting Started
Anything
Million
Started
Albums
Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with? Probably the one that I haven't hung most with recently.
Eddie Van Halen
You
Song
Every
Kid
Hung
Kids
Favorite
Like
Most
How
Hang
Which
Many
Recently
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
Eddie Van Halen
Music
Me
Crazy
College
Long
First
Down
Kids
Out
City
Inside
Kinds
Beach
Long Beach
Piano
Put
Instead
Stuff
Like
Annual
Read
Contests
Years
Won
Prize
Crazy Things
Used
Things
Row
Two
When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
Eddie Van Halen
Me
Listening
Clark
Dave
Like
Got
Up
Five
Bands
Going
Heavy
Really
Groove
Initially
Growing
Growing Up
Funky
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
Eddie Vedder
Music
Family
Relationship
You
Passion
Job
Holding
Tree
Once
Visible
Hurricane
About
Above
Betrayed
Onto
Never
Highly
Like
Became
Real
Dear
Were
Commerce
Real Passion
Held
Your
Even
Thing
Palm
You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
Eddie Vedder
Politics
Time
You
World
Bizarre
He
Like
Know
Accept
Because
Greatest
Rock
How
Tangible
Quarterback
Rock Star
Greatest Thing
Discussing
Really
Used
Hard
Hard Time
Star
Stardom
Thing
Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
Eddie Vedder
Music
Long
Energy
Kind
Record
Having
Had
Stuff
Like
Force
Audience
Making
Been
Getting
Just
Different
Different Kind
Then
Shot
Playing
Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
Eddie Vedder
Beatles
Problem
Vision
Rare
Pure
Enough
Our
Daniel
About
Absolutely
Like
Always
Sound
Sounds
Bands
Influences
The Problem With
Anything
Asked
Derivative
Who
Even
Seattle
Early
Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
Eddie Vedder
You
People
Sometimes
Fall
Easy
Like
Real
Whether
Elevate
I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.
Eddie Vedder
Democracy
Technology
People
Voting
Our
Paper
Those
Machines
No Reason
Computer
Hijacked
Like
Sure
Making
Educated
Trail
Being
Reason
In 1988, I earned something like £700,000. Yeah! I was earning 10 grand an hour opening shopping centres. Yeah! The most I earned in one day was 65 grand. I opened the Alton Towers fun ride in the morning, did a commercial in the afternoon and an appearance at a nightclub in the evening. Sixty-five grand in one day!
Eddie the Eagle
Day
Morning
Shopping
Ride
Earned
Earning
One Day
Something
Opened
Opening
Towers
Hour
Like
Most
Yeah
Commercial
Did
Afternoon
Grand
Fun
Appearance
Evening
Nightclub
The only airline I avoid like the plague is Ryanair. I don't like that, when you book, there are then all of these little extras to pay for, and you end up paying more than just flying with British Airways.
Eddie the Eagle
You
Book
Pay
Airline
Flying
Airways
More
Only
Like
End
Up
Than
Just
Little
Plague
Then
Paying
Avoid
British
I don't want to look like Michael Jackson.
Eddie the Eagle
Like
Look
Michael
Michael Jackson
Jackson
Want
I wore No. 24 at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada - one bib on the back and one on the front - and those are like my medals.
Eddie the Eagle
Winter
Back
Those
Like
Canada
Front
Wore
Medals
Olympics
I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.
Eden Hazard
Me
Problem
Punches
Take
Like
Accept
Boxer
Still
Hits
Blows
My first trophy in France was the Young Player of the Year. I was 17. Chelsea is not just one player. It is not only me. We have signed a lot of players. Now we have some good signings like Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa.
Eden Hazard
Good
Me
First
Year
Young
France
Signed
Some
Only
Trophy
Like
Chelsea
Lot
Diego
Just
Just One
Now
Player
Players
I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
Eden Hazard
Time
Me
Think
More
Feet
Like
Make
Because
Ball
Pass
Am
Closer
Manager
Middle
Wants
Central
Ask
Create
Chances
Position
If you told me to choose between family and football, then it is no choice. I take family, of course, like everyone. But I prefer to keep it private, and that's it. I just focus on the football.
Eden Hazard
Family
Me
You
Focus
Everyone
No Choice
Take
Football
Between
Like
Course
Private
Just
Prefer
Then
Choice
Choose
Keep
When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I will bring a freshness into the Euros, and now that I am captain, I am going to do my best to take responsibility.
Eden Hazard
Fitness
Best
Will
Responsibility
Think
Back
Able
Per
Take
Like
Am
Freshness
Going
Cent
Capable
Show
Captain
Now
Bring
If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
Eden Hazard
You
Wife
Honey
Say
Would
Take
Like
Go
Account
I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.
Eden Hazard
Best
Myself
Good
Game
Garden
Sometimes
Try
Young
Give
Having
Like
Make
Sure
Boy
Always
Am
Did
Team
Help
Even
Play
Playing
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