Eddie Van Halen Quotes

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Singing isn't always about being on key; it's about emotionality.

I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.

If I don't feel the music, I can't perform it.

I don't think the singers take it as seriously as we used to. The words, the meaning, the phrasing, the feeling of the song. They see the words, they know the tune and they just sing it.

It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.

Music is trying to tell a story, and I love the rock vibe. Hearing that finished product is almost the same high as having a killer wrestling match, you're just doing it with a guitar instead of a partner in the ring.

I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.

There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.

I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I'm most grateful for the strength I have in that department. I have a lot of bad habits on the guitar which limits my playing ability. But I get a little better each year.

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.