Van Halen Quotes
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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 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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You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
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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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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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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 only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.
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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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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 change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.
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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 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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Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.
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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.
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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 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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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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I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods.
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You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.
