Van Halen Quotes
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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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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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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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Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.
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Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.
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Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!
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I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.
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I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!
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I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.
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The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
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Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into a trance, and she would just start typing information, and then she would come out of her trance and read it and go, "Wow," and that was just the way she wrote her books.
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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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Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello...
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I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
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I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on it. I signed off in a second. "You bet that anyone can use this. I don't care. You can use it for anything." If it is to inspire people in the positive sense.
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People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
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If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call.
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I was kind of always attracted to red. I used to wear red socks a lot for some crazy reason.
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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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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.
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You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.
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I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it.