Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply shor... -Eddie Van Halen

Music 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 work, I'm cool.

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Eddie Van Halen was a Dutch-American musician and songwriter. He was the co-founder and lead guitarist of the rock band Van Halen, known for his innovative guitar playing and influential contributions to the rock and metal music genres.

Eddie Van Halen Quotes to Explore

I 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 ...
If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your l...
It'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...
I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically l...
We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters....
It's always about the music, never about anything else....
Music 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 lo...
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me....
The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone....
I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alon...

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Music was very influential on me as a kid....
At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible....
Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of so...
When you get to your teenage years, you want to find something that you identify with. It's almost a slight rebellion; you don't want to listen to wha...
Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier o...
Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emot...
I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music....
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive envi...
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professe...
We've always said Psychic TV's music is the sum total of who's in it at the time....