Van Halen Quotes
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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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Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.
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I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.
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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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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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Some things are impossible.
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I'm just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.
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I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
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He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
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Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
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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.
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I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success...
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I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.
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The downloads, the licensing, commercials, radio - it's made me more money than any song I've ever written, and it only went to No. 26. It wasn't a big hit at all. But it's a career song ["I Can't Drive 55"].
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"Rock Candy" was my first record. I had never been in a studio, so I was in shock and I had no idea if it was great or if it stunk. I was just putting in my heart and soul, and closing my eyes and keeping my fingers crossed. I gave it everything.
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I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.
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I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.
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I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.
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Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them...
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If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes
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I am a one-trick pony. If you tell most people to draw a picture of a tree, they'd draw 35 branches and 10,000 leaves. I will draw you a tree with four branches and three leaves, and I'll spend the rest of the week drawing inside of each leaf. In terms of the grand gesture, I reserve that maximum turbo blast energy for what I do as an artist, and I sing and dance for dinner.
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If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?