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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.
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I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.
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For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!
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Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.
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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.
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I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself.
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I don't want to try to force anything, because I'm really happy with Chickenfoot; my new record with them is phenomenal.
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You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
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The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
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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.
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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.
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The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
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Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out.
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When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
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The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!
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The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.
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I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.
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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.
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I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.
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I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.
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Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.
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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.
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!