Famous Eddie Van Halen Quotes

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.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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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! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.
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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.
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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.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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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.
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