Van Halen Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive...
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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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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I was kind of always attracted to red. I used to wear red socks a lot for some crazy reason.
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I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.
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I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
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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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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've always been into writing love songs.
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I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.
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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
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When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now.
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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.
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I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.
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On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.
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Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
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The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!
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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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Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.
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Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts