#fin

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#creative process #execution #finally #first #inspiration

On a personal level, we all get along fine. ↗

— Alex Van Halen

#fine #get #level #personal #personal level

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. ↗

— Matthew Hale

#clothes #fashion #fine #folly #loving

Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#any #before #being #big #could

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. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#blessed #ears #fingers #fooled #good

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. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#cool #fingers #happens #i #jerk

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. ↗

— Alex Haley

#find #good #i #i tried #much

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#encourage #find #i #i do #just

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#contentment #indolence #refined #simply

I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#been #being #comic #defining #defining moment