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 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.
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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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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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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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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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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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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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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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We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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Every 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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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 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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Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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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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