You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
EDDIE VAN HALENYou know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
EDDIE VAN HALENIt’s always about the music, never about anything else.
EDDIE VAN HALENEverything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
EDDIE VAN HALENBass is for people who can’t play guitar.
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.
EDDIE VAN HALENYou’ve only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
EDDIE VAN HALENI took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
EDDIE VAN HALENI’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.
EDDIE VAN HALENIf I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.
EDDIE VAN HALENHoldsworth is so damned good that I can’t cop anything. I can’t understand what he’s doing. I’ve got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he’ll do it with one hand.
EDDIE VAN HALENI’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
EDDIE VAN HALENMy son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
EDDIE VAN HALENEventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
EDDIE VAN HALENA guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that’s not right, all the strings should be off.
EDDIE VAN HALENI’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
EDDIE VAN HALENI never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
EDDIE VAN HALEN