"We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters." ― Eddie Van Halen Topic(s): Music More From Eddie Van Halen "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 livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you’ll get to where you want to be." "The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone." "We make music for a living. Like I’ve always said, if you like what you’re doing, you’re halfway there; if someone else likes it, that’s even better. If they don’t like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be." More In Music "As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."― Leonardo DaVinci "I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?"― Peter Tosh "Comedians work great as actors because they’re good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything’s going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, ‘Hey, you really are screwing this up,’ and then they just get better."― Louis C. K.