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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I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.
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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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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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Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
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I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.
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Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive...
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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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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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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 was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
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Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
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I've always been into writing love songs.
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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'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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Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts
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The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!
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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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You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.
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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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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 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 perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!