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.
EDDIE VAN HALENI applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
-
-
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
EDDIE VAN HALEN -
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 HALEN -
Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?
EDDIE VAN HALEN -
Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
EDDIE VAN HALEN -
Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
EDDIE VAN HALEN -
It’s always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you’re the same, and they hate you if you’re different.
EDDIE VAN HALEN -
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN -
I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
EDDIE VAN HALEN -
I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
EDDIE VAN HALEN -
You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
EDDIE VAN HALEN -
I have selective hearing.
EDDIE VAN HALEN -
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN -
I boil the strings so they stretch.
EDDIE VAN HALEN -
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
EDDIE VAN HALEN -
I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
EDDIE VAN HALEN