I’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
EDDIE VAN HALENI never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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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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Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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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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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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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I’m not your average bear. I – what’s the word? I’m not – normal.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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