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I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

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
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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Album Artist Best Goodness Listening Production
If you have a great-sounding guitar that’s a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that’s the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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Feeling Greatness Instrument Quality Sound Talk Yourself
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
There’s a plaque on our wall that says we’ve sold over 65 million albums, and I don’t feel I’ve accomplished anything. I feel like I’m just getting started.
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Accomplishment Album Feeling Myself Start Wall
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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Connection Emotional Extension Guitar Instrument Myself Person Personal Play Spiritual
I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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Myself Normal Scheme
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
I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that’s when I started getting my own style.
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Fingers Hands Myself Old Start Style
I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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Myself Passion Writing
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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Basic Blessing Goodness Kind Learning Myself Teacher
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
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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Fame Music Path Simplicity Start
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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Children Discover Life Music Myself Passion Wonderful
Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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Death Musician Rock Stardom
Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
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Appeal Big People
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
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’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Drink Myself Sound
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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Growth Listening Myself
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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Myself Play Song Way Writing
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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Day Death Kind Music Myself
The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
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Family Legacy Myself Name
It’s all about sound. It’s that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it’s digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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Digital Myself Simplicity Sound Start
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
I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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Age Education Instrument Lesson Music Time
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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Generosity Music Myself Trouble

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