Eddie Van Halen Quotes

It's about the music for us. Always has been. The bottom line is the music.

I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.

Music should always be first.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

My heart and soul is still music.

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

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

Music is my heart and soul. That's what I love to do.

Music is something I can control.

I just make the music and then the music speaks for itself.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.

For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.