Van Halen Quotes
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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 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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It dont matter WHAT your doing, ust as long as you LOOK GOOD doing it...
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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'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'd love to be abducted. I'd sit on my deck at home waiting all night long to be abducted. But that's never happened that I know of.
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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 had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.
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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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This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.
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My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
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I loved that song "Don't Tell Me", but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.
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Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do...
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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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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 the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.
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There are a lot of people going around where an alien took over their body, and their soul will actually leave and be, like, in a sleep or in a near-death situation.
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Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?
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It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.
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Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog.
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I've always been kind of a speed demon.
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I've had my fill of "One Way To Rock" or "I Can't Drive 55." Those are guy songs to me, and I'm cool with that. But when you write a great love song and you start seeing that 50 percent of your audience is beautiful women, that's much more rewarding, than having a bunch of guys out there.
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I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.
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We always sold 4 or 5 million records no matter what we did.