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 HALENIt’s always about the music, never about anything else.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I’m tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I’ve opened up my own pathology center.
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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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I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I’m not your average bear. I – what’s the word? I’m not – normal.
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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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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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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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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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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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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 grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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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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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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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
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