Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
EDDIE VAN HALENI’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.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Some people think a song without words isn’t a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he’ll kick your ass!
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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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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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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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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.
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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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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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
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I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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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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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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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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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 have selective hearing.
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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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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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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’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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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?
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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.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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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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