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.
EDDIE VAN HALENActually, 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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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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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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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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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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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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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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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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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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It’s always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you’re the same, and they hate you if you’re different.
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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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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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Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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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 one thing I do have is good ears. I don’t mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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