Eddie Van Halen

Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.

— Eddie Van Halen

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

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

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

— Eddie Van Halen

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that…

— Eddie Van Halen

I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!

— Eddie Van Halen

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

— Eddie Van Halen

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…

— Eddie Van Halen

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

— Eddie Van Halen

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

I'm just a normal schmo like anyone else.

— Eddie Van Halen

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

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal…

— Eddie Van Halen

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

I boil the strings so they stretch.

— Eddie Van Halen

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

Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does…

— Eddie Van Halen

The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff…

— Eddie Van Halen

I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I…

— Eddie Van Halen

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that…

— Eddie Van Halen

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

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going.…

— Eddie Van Halen

Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to…

— Eddie Van Halen

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

— Eddie Van Halen

On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only…

— Eddie Van Halen