I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
EDDIE VAN HALENI’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
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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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You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I’m very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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A 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.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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I have selective hearing.
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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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A good producer brings out the best in the artist he’s working with. You shouldn’t be able to listen to something and say, ‘So-and-so produced this album.
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I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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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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I’ve had a hip replacement, I’ve beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, ‘I’m done.’
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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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Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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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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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
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The 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.
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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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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’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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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 was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that’s when I started getting my own style.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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