Van Halen Quotes
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Bass is for people who can't play guitar...
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I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50...
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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.
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I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
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I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.
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The best time is during the struggle. The top of the mountain is usually small, freezing and lonesome. To this day I'm continually reinvesting myself in something new. I'm not afraid to start as a beginner in anything.
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It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.
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Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
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It is not as easy as one would think finding the right people. Coming out of Van Halen, I knew I didn't want to put a three-piece together.
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Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.
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And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just sent a bad message to a troubled generation.
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I don't want to try to force anything, because I'm really happy with Chickenfoot; my new record with them is phenomenal.
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Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth.
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Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog.
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An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance...
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I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.
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While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.
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Some things are impossible.
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It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.
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I just have a vision of something, and it seems to go a long way. One thought goes a long way.
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I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
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I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success...
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A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.