Van Halen Quotes
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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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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 think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
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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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I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.
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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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When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
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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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Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a rock guitarists time is spent playing rhythm, it's important to learn to do it well .. learning lead should come after you can play solid backup and have the sound of the chords in your head...
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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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When I woke up from that dream, brother, I was like, "Okay, I've got to know what that was, what happened." That was not an average dream. I've had some dreams in my days, but not like that. It was way too vivid. Looking back, the reason that dream makes more sense today than it did then is, we are in a digital world. Back then, it was an analog world. Everything was digital in the dream.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich and famous. I've got to figure out where I want to go and just get this thing aimed. I wrote this song ["Right Now"] and I kept singing it every day .
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You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
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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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The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!
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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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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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I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
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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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People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
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Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.