Eddie Van Halen Quotes
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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.
Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?
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.
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.
Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar
It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.
Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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.
It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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.
Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them
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.
Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?
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.
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.
Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.
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.
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.'
On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening.
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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.
I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.
I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
