I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
EDDIE VAN HALENPractice. 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.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
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It’s always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you’re the same, and they hate you if you’re different.
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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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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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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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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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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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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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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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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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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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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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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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