Van Halen Quotes
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Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.
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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 played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top end of it whenever I hear it, I always think, Man I could've played it better ... but I like the way it sounds. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that before.
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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'm a natural behind the camera... My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here... When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there.
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When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now.
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After I had my dream, I got into numerology. Like my buddy's name is Bill, and I would say, "B is a two, and each I is a nine, and the L's are fours. And that's eight." I would figure out everybody's numerological single-digit number.
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To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
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You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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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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Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
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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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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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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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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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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?
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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'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
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I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.
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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 don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.
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I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.
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I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!