Van Halen Quotes
- All Quotes
- News Quotes
-
I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."
-
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.
-
I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.
-
I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
-
The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
-
I've always been into writing love songs.
-
So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.
-
It dont matter WHAT your doing, ust as long as you LOOK GOOD doing it...
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
-
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.
-
Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do...
-
I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.
-
I've always been kind of a speed demon.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.
-
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.
-
I loved that song "Don't Tell Me", but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.
-
I grew up on radio, not TV.
-
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.
-
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?