When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters. — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming. — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass! — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack,… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?'… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically,… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Jimmy Page is an excellent producer. Led Zeppelin I and II are classics. As a player he's very good in the studio,… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share
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. — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share
We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters. — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share
I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in,… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share
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… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share
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.… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share
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… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share
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… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share
And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share
