Van Halen Quotes
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.
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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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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 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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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 think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
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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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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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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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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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You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
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When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
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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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I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.
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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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The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.
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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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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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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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I was kind of always attracted to red. I used to wear red socks a lot for some crazy reason.