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Eddie Van Halen (Musician)

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

— Eddie Van Halen music

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

— Eddie Van Halen music

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

— Eddie Van Halen funny

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

— Eddie Van Halen inspiration

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

— Eddie Van Halen alone

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.

— Eddie Van Halen music

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.

— Eddie Van Halen time

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.

— Eddie Van Halen trouble

Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

— Eddie Van Halen love

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.

— Eddie Van Halen art

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

— Eddie Van Halen success

I have selective hearing.

— Eddie Van Halen

It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.

— Eddie Van Halen hate

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.'

— Eddie Van Halen men

I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.

— Eddie Van Halen light

I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

— Eddie Van Halen sin

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

— Eddie Van Halen live

I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

— Eddie Van Halen art

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

— 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 my guitars refretted every couple of months.

— Eddie Van Halen play

When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

— Eddie Van Halen art

I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

— Eddie Van Halen

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

— Eddie Van Halen writing

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

— Eddie Van Halen music

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

— Eddie Van Halen fun

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, youll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually youll get to where you want to be.

— Eddie Van Halen music

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