Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because we are talking when we should be listening.
You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato. . . I bought a body from Charvel for $50. 00 and a neck for $80. 00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes
When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.
The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.