147 Quotes by Eddie Van Halen

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.

Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!

Practice. 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.