"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."
― Eddie Van Halen
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― Eddie Van Halen
More From Eddie Van Halen
- "I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland."
- "I 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 College, and two years in a row, I won first prize – out of like 5,000 kids!"
- "I 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 saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn’t wait for the day I’d be able to make music with my son. I don’t know what more I could ask for."
More In Music
- "I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing."― Alanis Morissette
- "I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."― Taylor Swift
- "Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?"― Camille Paglia