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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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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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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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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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 live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.
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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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The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
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Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello...
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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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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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I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
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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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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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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.
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Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar...
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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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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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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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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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I was kind of always attracted to red. I used to wear red socks a lot for some crazy reason.