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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN
To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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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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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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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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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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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 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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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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Bass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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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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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
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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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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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