#music

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! ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

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. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

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

#i do #inspires #know #lyrics #me

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. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#acoustic #acoustic guitar #along #ask #beat

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#business #certainly #dreamt #fame #famous

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#day #die #done #i #kinds

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty. ↗

— Jerry Hall

#beauty #big #big fan #fan #i

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#came #gathered #i #instruments #musical

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#any #anyone #beautiful #beautiful music #being

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#dislike #either #even #i #know