If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.
EDDIE VAN HALENI’m blessed with a good pair of ears. That’s how I fooled my piano teacher. I’d watch his fingers and I’d listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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.
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It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I’m just so blessed.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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Some people think a song without words isn’t a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he’ll kick your ass!
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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.
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I’ll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I’m recording. If I break one I’ll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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Holdsworth is so damned good that I can’t cop anything. I can’t understand what he’s doing. I’ve got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he’ll do it with one hand.
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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.
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I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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