Eddie Van Halen Quotes

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

I like music, a lot of different types of music.

I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.

I've been loving music all my life.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.

I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.

I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk and indie rock, to getting to play my own songs and have people listen, music is what got me through.

I'm just so grateful to be a part of BABYMETAL because without this opportunity, I wouldn't have had a deeper connection to music!

I always loved music and was drawn to it and affected by it. But it wasn't until I got to San Diego that I started exploring music more.

I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

If it's music, I love it.

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I love all kinds of music.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.