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The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
Alex Van Halen Van Halen -
Me and Eddie really hit it off as songwriters and also as just people. It lasted three years. I don't regret one moment. They were great to me.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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We brought out the old catalog and the majority of the Van Halen fans did appreciate it, but in the end, they wanted their Dave.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
I was kind of always attracted to red. I used to wear red socks a lot for some crazy reason.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
It's part of our nature. As much as I love, if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.
Alex Van Halen Van Halen -
I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.
David Lee Roth Van Halen
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Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
Jimmy Page is an excellent producer. Led Zeppelin I and II are classics. As a player he's very good in the studio, but I've never seen him play well live. He's sloppy. He plays like he's got a broken hand and he's two years old. If you put out a good album and play like a two year old, what's the purpose?
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.
David Lee Roth Van Halen
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Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing...
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
What's missing is the testosterone. What's missing is the fury. What's missing is the passionate convicted commitment. And I got a lot of mine from my religious background. So y'all best stop imagining the way Dr. Zorba looked, or some defenseless Hasidic Jew with a little yarmulke on his head, 'cause that ain't here for you.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
Alex Van Halen Van Halen -
The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes...
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
My visions and fantasies are pretty standard. The only difference is I got to do it, while most of us haven't. Beyond that, I'm a pretty standard guy. Give me a gal with a sense of humor, acidic wit, who's read a few books and has a body like a Swedish speed skater, and I'm quite content.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
David Lee Roth Van Halen