Eddie Van Halen
Related EDDIE VAN HALEN Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like E... BUZZ OSBORNE I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - a... ELIZA COUPE ALVIN LEE GARY CHERONE I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons... JOHN GOKONGWEI I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they w... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN FRANK IERO DIERKS BENTLEY I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they... MANUTE BOL My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. KATE BUSH JASON MORAN Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad... COLIN MOCHRIE I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, '... BILLY BOYD In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the... RAVI SHANKAR JAMES PATTERSON DIMEBAG DARRELL VANESSA CARLTON ORNETTE COLEMAN I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don... IAN AXEL It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a '... BIRDY I'd like to be a piano player. CHRIS DAUGHTRY Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music...... ERIC CARR I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race. AL UNSER HOLLY HUNTER DAVID BOWIE I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photograph... ALAINA HUFFMAN MARILYN MONROE BRIE LARSON All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You'... LESLIE MANN ROBERT PATTINSON ALBERT BROOKS I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to... LAURA TROTT DIMEBAG DARRELL VANESSA CARLTON [That wasn't acceptable to the patient.] I only do two things in life, ... I write and I play the pi... DAVID POGUE I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu... GREG KURSTIN GARY CHERONE SAMMY HAGAR ANGELA DUCKWORTH ESPERANZA SPALDING WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN TOM PETTY I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano. DAVID LAMBERT It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't lik... MARK HOPPUS ROBERT GRIFFIN III You can go the route of not living your life at all - and a lot of actors do that, where they just w... AUSTIN BUTLER DIMEBAG DARRELL I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get bett... ELLE FANNING Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do ... RICHIE HAVENS DIMEBAG DARRELL ALAN ALDA JOHN RIDLEY I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, an... KEVIN ALEJANDRO I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I wa... BAS RUTTEN Then at high school I got an electric guitar and a book with some photos of Eddie Van Halen in it an... LUKE BUDA I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instrumen... JON TESTER I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the ke... CAROLINE CORR GARY CHERONE TIM DALY ERIC CLAPTON I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these th... BILL CALLAHAN NAT KING COLE I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseba... BOB UECKER A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think... BRIAN SETZER Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic... AGNES OBEL I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know ... ARIEL PINK IRINA SHAYK EL DEBARGE I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right pia... BENMONT TENCH When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.... PAUL SHAFFER I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the ... CHARLIE MCDERMOTT When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling;... JUSTINA MACHADO GARY VAYNERCHUK CHARLIE PUTH I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music. MACEO PARKER BOB NEWHART I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the ... KAREN QUAN ELTON JOHN VIRAT KOHLI Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I... JAMIE FOXX I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky ... REBECCA WELLS When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, ... OMAR SY I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainl... TARAN KILLAM EUGENIE CLARK Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a ... CHARLES PHILLIPS CUSH JUMBO I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed sp... MARK CONSUELOS SIA I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it. D. J. MACHALE GEORGINA CHAPMAN TED NUGENT SAMMY HAGAR GEORGE LOPEZ WOODY ALLEN I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom. EOIN COLFER I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I... BOB SAGET I've always written [music]. I've always played the piano. And until recently-- with Metric being a ... EMILY HAINES I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen. IAN AXEL I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand. CASPER VAN DIEN
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VAN HALEN It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a roo... ALEX VAN HALEN It's nice seeing everybody again - not that I am implying that I have a close personal relationship ... ALEX VAN HALEN You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while y... ALEX VAN HALEN Some things are impossible. ALEX VAN HALEN There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direct... ALEX VAN HALEN When you leave the planet, you leave music behind. ALEX VAN HALEN Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are... ALEX VAN HALEN We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together. ALEX VAN HALEN Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great. ALEX VAN HALEN On a personal level, we all get along fine. ALEX VAN HALEN Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done. ALEX VAN HALEN It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room wi... ALEX VAN HALEN Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat. ALEX VAN HALEN Van Halen is a work in progress. ALEX VAN HALEN The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen. ALEX VAN HALEN Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness. ALEX VAN HALEN There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that. ALEX VAN HALEN When the tour is done, that's the end of the U.S. tour. We'll regroup and see what we're... ALEX VAN HALEN There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same di... ALEX VAN HALEN Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's grea... ALEX VAN HALEN At our age, you don't want to stop. ALEX VAN HALEN It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't u... ALEX VAN HALEN We're very needy people, you know. ALEX VAN HALEN You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good whi... ALEX VAN HALEN We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together. ALEX VAN HALEN Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done. ALEX VAN HALEN You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands. ALEX VAN HALEN Nobody sets out to make a bad record. ALEX VAN HALEN There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying th... ALEX VAN HALEN Music is a dialogue. ALEX VAN HALEN Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat. ALEX VAN HALEN Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. HALEN Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat. ALEX HALEN Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are... ALEX HALEN We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together. ALEX HALEN When you leave the planet, you leave music behind. ALEX HALEN On a personal level, we all get along fine. ALEX HALEN There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direct... ALEX HALEN Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done. ALEX HALEN Some things are impossible. ALEX HALEN It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room wi... ALEX HALEN You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while y... ALEX HALEN My favorite part of the conference is going to be the candle-lighting ceremony. It's kind of a senti... TIFFANY HALEN People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to ... EDDIE HUANG EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE REDMAYNE Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion. EDDIE TRUNK EDDIE REDMAYNE Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respe... EDDIE TRUNK EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER EDDIE VEDDER I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform. EDDIE TRUNK I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artist... EDDIE TRUNK I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I ... EDDIE TRUNK My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music. EDDIE TRUNK I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I lik... EDDIE TRUNK I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever conside... EDDIE TRUNK When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the in... EDDIE TRUNK I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times. EDDIE TRUNK Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable. EDDIE TRUNK It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a gro... EDDIE TRUNK One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews. EDDIE TRUNK People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a me... EDDIE TRUNK I've known Bret Michaels forever. EDDIE TRUNK I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, &#... EDDIE TRUNK One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lo... EDDIE TRUNK I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some v... EDDIE TRUNK The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that... EDDIE TRUNK VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show. EDDIE TRUNK How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the materia... EDDIE TRUNK One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without que... EDDIE TRUNK The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? ... EDDIE TRUNK People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always think... EDDIE TRUNK Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like J... EDDIE TRUNK Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it. EDDIE TRUNK They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that.... EDDIE SLOVIK I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime y... EDDIE SLOVIK I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble. EDDIE SLOVIK Army life don't agree with me. EDDIE SLOVIK The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too... EDDIE SLOVIK I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial. EDDIE SLOVIK I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going. EDDIE SLOVIK Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life. EDDIE SLOVIK Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky. 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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of cr... 
I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't ta... 
I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10... 
I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you p... 
When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen. 
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My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace F... 
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In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,'... 
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All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about m... 
I won't do things for money. I can't. So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There&#... 
I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw... 
When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but... 
When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes ju... 
I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. 
When he called me, my stomach went wrench! ... [I thought], Maybe Dave and I can buddy up and all of... 
I didn't tell my kids, 'You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.' They chose ... 
My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the s... 
After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was ... 
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down a... 
I wasn't a rebel. It kind of clicked in my head, like, if I want to do this, I can go out and do... 
When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might l... 
If there are two kinds of people in the world - DC Comics people and Marvel Comics people - what kin... 
Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There a... 
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I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survive... 
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling... 
I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school... 
The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down... 
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I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in sel... 
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All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head ... 
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Eddie Van Halen is certainly one of the top innovative virtuosos in history. 
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those rec... 
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Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you ca... 
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug. 
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It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs. 
Sports of every sort had always appealed to me. 
Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies. 
The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. 
They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they'... 