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 HALENMy son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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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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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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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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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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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 was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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Actually, 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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It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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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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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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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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Holdsworth is so damned good that I can’t cop anything. I can’t understand what he’s doing. I’ve got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he’ll do it with one hand.
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