"Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs."

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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