Van Halen Quotes
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Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
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Jimmy Page is an excellent producer. Led Zeppelin I and II are classics. As a player he's very good in the studio, but I've never seen him play well live. He's sloppy. He plays like he's got a broken hand and he's two years old. If you put out a good album and play like a two year old, what's the purpose?
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Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive...
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I've always been very self-motivated.
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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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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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Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts
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I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
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Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.
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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
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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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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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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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Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!
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"Love Walks In," it was the same thing. That song is about aliens, by the way.
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I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built one myself ... I wanted a Gibson type of sound but with a Strat vibrato .. I went to town painting it and I put three pickups back in, but they don't work - only the rear one works...
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The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
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Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.
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Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.
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Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.
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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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Nobody sets out to make a bad record.