Van Halen Quotes
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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'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'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
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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 can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.
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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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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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So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.
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I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.
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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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It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.
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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'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."
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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 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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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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Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do...
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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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I grew up on radio, not TV.
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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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The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
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I've always been into writing love songs.
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I feel it's such a tragic thing [Kurt Cobain's suicide]. Here is a guy, a young guy, that had everything in his hands. He could have had a great life. He had a wife, he had a child, he had a fantastic career. He was important to a generation. And for him to do that - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong.
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Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!