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Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with? Probably the one that I haven't hung most with recently.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
It's all about sound. It's that simple.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
People know my name and that can get me in the door but on the same hand people know my name and that can have them shut the door.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
I was really wanting to be a rock star. I was saying, "I am going to have a fancy car, I got to have fancy clothes, and I have got to play the whole role." Obviously, I meant business.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen