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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.

Eddie Van Halen

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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Feeling Greatness Instrument Quality Sound Talk Yourself
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Guitar Interval Music Theory Wrong
I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I’m not your average bear. I – what’s the word? I’m not – normal.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Average Myself Normal Ordinary Word
The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Couple Guitar Myself Play Stain Time
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Digital Myself Simplicity Sound Start
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.’
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Cancer Drink Hands Myself Operation Replacement
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Age Guitar Lesson Live Myself
Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Beginning Mark Pattern Rhythm Yourself
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Break Leaving Myself Replacement String
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Drum Guitar Myself Son
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Hollywood Mindset Ourselves People Thinking
Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Appeal Big People
Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Alcohol Complication Method
The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Family Legacy Myself Name
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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Fame Music Path Simplicity Start
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

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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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