Guitar Quote by Sammy Hagar

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

— Zakk Wylde

What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional,…

— Tom Morello

In my world, before I knew about Eddie Van Halen, I was playing piano, and at that point in my teenage life, I thought…

— Lzzy Hale

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

— Paul McCartney

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

— Tony Iommi

I liked Eddie Van Halen, when he first came out, because he was doing something original.

— Marky Ramone

If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the…

— Rickey Medlocke

In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real…

— John Darnielle

Jimi Hendrix is one of the main influences on why I wanted to play guitar. He really shook me. I think it was his…

— John 5

“There is, of course, a chicken-and-egg element here: does someone gravitate to the role of Eddie van Halen because he shares similar personality traits…

— Steven Kurutz

I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come…

— Ted Templeman

Every guitar has a personality.

— Jol Dantzig