Eddie Van HalenBefore the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn'… ▶342Hope
Eddie Van HalenI have selective hearing. ✨ Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar. Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2009.364Death
Eddie Van HalenOn 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentr… ▶331HumanityThoughtTime
Eddie Van HalenPractice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.331Reflection
Eddie Van HalenImagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows? ✨ Eddie Van Halen … ▶376Death
Eddie Van HalenI can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City … ▶365DeathReading
Eddie Van HalenMusic kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me. ✨ Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars To Los Angeles… ▶354Death
Eddie Van HalenMusic is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers wo… ▶343HumanityThought
Eddie Van HalenThere's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.332Humor
Eddie Van HalenI wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and p… ▶354Sadness
Eddie Van HalenI grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.344Reading
Eddie Van HalenI was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.311Reading
Eddie Van HalenI boil the strings so they stretch.311Reflection
Eddie Van HalenIt's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different. ✨ Readers recommend: chicken-and-egg songs by Peter Kimpton, www.t… ▶301Reading
Eddie Van HalenMajor third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.378Life
Eddie Van HalenNirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone. ✨ Eddie Van Halen deconstructs his collaboration on 'Beat It'. Interview with Denise Quan, edition.cnn.com. Nov… ▶368Death
Eddie Van HalenI'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk. ✨ Edward Van Halen Is Alive by David Curcurito, www.esquire.com. May 2012.335Life
Eddie Van HalenObviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to whe… ▶358Love
Eddie Van HalenI have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I s… ▶281Truth
Eddie Van HalenI'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?281Thought
Eddie Van HalenI was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.315Thought
Eddie Van HalenThere are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.337Love
Eddie Van HalenRock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guit… ▶271Reading
Eddie Van HalenIt's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do… ▶339Humor
Eddie Van HalenI went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tap… ▶306Hope
Eddie Van HalenIt's always about the music, never about anything else. ✨ Interview with David Curcurito, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2012.3410Philosophy
Eddie Van HalenI don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.274Thought
Eddie Van HalenI applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!296Philosophy
Eddie Van HalenWhen I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.275Humor
Eddie Van HalenI destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the st… ▶287Sadness
