Eddie Van Halen Quotes

I play the guitar.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

I do a very poor man's pedal steel on the Stratocaster.

I play the guitar every day.

I don't like to be caught without a pick.

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic guitar. You must develop it as a totally different thing.

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it and I'm learning more and more everyday.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted.

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players.

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

I was a guitar player first off.

I'm not a guitar collector. I own some guitars because I play.

I'm not a guitar hero.