I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
EDDIE VAN HALENThere are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.
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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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I don’t really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
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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’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.
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I have selective hearing.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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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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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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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 took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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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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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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The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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