Eddie Van Halen Quotes

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.

I've been loving music all my life.

My passion in life, besides my family, was always music. From the time I was a kid, I was obsessed. I'm like the ultimate fan.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

We play the instruments we love.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.

Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

The great love of my life is music.

We do it because we love to play music and that's what we're all about.

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 love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

I give my heart in every single session I've done, and I get into the music. I love all kinds of music, and I try and really be as authentic as possible and give from my heart.

In '92 - '93, I was at that age when I was looking for my identity and that's when I found dance music and I really fell in love with it.

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.