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.
EDDIE VAN HALENIf I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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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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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I’m very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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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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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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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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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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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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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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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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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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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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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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