"I’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming." ― Eddie Van Halen Topic(s): Music More From Eddie Van Halen "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 mean it’s funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it’s not competitive like an election, it’s the Olympics, it’s not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like." "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 learned it by myself." More In Music "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."― Frank Zappa "I only want to make music because I have a passion for it."― Annie Lennox "The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral."― H. L. Mencken