I’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.
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.
EDDIE VAN HALENThe one thing I do have is good ears. I don’t mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
EDDIE VAN HALENI’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
EDDIE VAN HALENEventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
EDDIE VAN HALENTo hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
EDDIE VAN HALENRock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
EDDIE VAN HALENMusic kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
EDDIE VAN HALENI’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
EDDIE VAN HALENWhen 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 HALENA guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that’s not right, all the strings should be off.
EDDIE VAN HALENMy son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
EDDIE VAN HALENI never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
EDDIE VAN HALENIf 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 HALENIt makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I’m just so blessed.
EDDIE VAN HALENI applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
EDDIE VAN HALENEvery 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?
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