Eddie Van Halen Quotes

If you've been playing for a few years, especially in a group context, you'll see if you have the ability or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to and you've got to love, no matter what happens.

The great love of my life is music.

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

I'm the kind of guy that if I go to a concert and hear something that knocks me out, I don't want to be left out of that. I'm going to try to get into that, and I'm running back home to practice.

I have always made music with passion, love and honesty.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

I lived for music since I could think.

My music is like my freedom space.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.