"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 "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." "On ‘Van Halen,’ I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I’d say that at the time of ‘Fair Warning,’ I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people’s minds I’m just a gunslinger." "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." More In Music "I’ve sung other people’s music all my life."― Adam Lambert "Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature."― Ravi Shankar "In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss."― Joni Mitchell