Van Halen Quotes
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.
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Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7pm to party and get laid, and when he'd come back at 3am, I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years - I still do that.
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Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!
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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
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Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!
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I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.
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Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Nobody's going to get a hot dog at my concert!
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There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.
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Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.
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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
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'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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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.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
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The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on.
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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.
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Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello...