Eddie Van Halen Quotes

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.

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• A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.

  

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• Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

  

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• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

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• I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.

  

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• We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

  

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• I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.

  

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• I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

  

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• In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

  

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• I'm very competitive, and I want to win.

  

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• Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

  

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• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

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• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

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• Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.

  

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• We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

  

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• I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

  

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• Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

  

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• We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

  

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• Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

  

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• Many are called but few get up.

  

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• The unique innovation of the phonetic alphabet released the Greeks from the universal acoustic spill of tribal societies. (p. 70)

  

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• 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 Van Halen
  • Music
  • Day
  • Son