Eddie Van Halen Piano Quotations

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.

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.

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.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.