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.
EDDIE VAN HALEN
I 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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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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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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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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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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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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We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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It’s always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you’re the same, and they hate you if you’re different.
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Some people think a song without words isn’t a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he’ll kick your ass!
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I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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