Eddie Van Halen Quotes

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

Since I was three, music's been my life.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

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 was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

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

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

Music has always been something that I knew that I would eventually want to pursue.

I see music as a lifetime affair.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea; I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.

The great love of my life is music.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

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

I lived for music since I could think.