Van Halen Quotes
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I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes...
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When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.
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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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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
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I've always been very self-motivated.
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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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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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Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.
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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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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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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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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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You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.
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Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
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It is not as easy as one would think finding the right people. Coming out of Van Halen, I knew I didn't want to put a three-piece together.
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I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
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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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If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
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I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
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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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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.