Top 36 Best Van Halen Quotes
#2. 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
#6. 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 the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
Eddie Van Halen
#7. More and more, I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. 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 pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.
John Darnielle
#8. 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? Probably the one that I haven't hung most with recently.
Eddie Van Halen
#10. 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
#11. It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
Eddie Van Halen
#12. You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
Eddie Van Halen
#13. 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
#14. I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
Eddie Van Halen
#15. 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.
Eddie Van Halen
#16. 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.
Eddie Van Halen
#17. I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
Eddie Van Halen
#18. Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music ... I like a lot of different things.
Eric Carr
#20. We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
Eddie Van Halen
#21. The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
Henry Rollins
#22. 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
#23. Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.
Zakk Wylde
#24. My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.
Dave Mustaine
#25. When the tour is done, that's the end of the U.S. tour. We'll regroup and see what we're going to do.
Alex Van Halen
#26. I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
Eddie Van Halen
#27. Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
Chuck Eddy
#28. The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
Alex Van Halen
#29. Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.
David Lee Roth
#30. Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.
Alex Van Halen
#32. On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.
Eddie Van Halen
#33. 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.
Eddie Van Halen
#34. Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
Sammy Hagar
#35. 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?
Eddie Van Halen
#36. A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'
Eddie Van Halen
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