Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
EDDIE VAN HALENI applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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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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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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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 only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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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’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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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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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let’s put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don’t.
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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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There’s a plaque on our wall that says we’ve sold over 65 million albums, and I don’t feel I’ve accomplished anything. I feel like I’m just getting started.
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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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I think Clapton is brilliant. He’s the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
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