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You’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

Eddie Van Halen

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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Instrument Reading Theory Universal Yourself
Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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Ideas Myself Thinking
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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Children Myself Oneself Song
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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Guitar Interval Music Theory Wrong
It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
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Music Passion
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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Band Direction Himself Myself Try
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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Creative Execution Inspirational Release
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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Hollywood Mindset Ourselves People Thinking
I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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Early Growth Musician Myself
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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Age Guitar Lesson Live Myself
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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Break Leaving Myself Replacement String
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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Development Goodness Myself Perfection Record Theory
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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Brilliant Move Oneself Thinking
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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Inspirational Lyrics Music Myself Writing
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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Bed Brother Dedication Music Myself Practice
I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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Myself Normal Scheme

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