Van Halen Quotes
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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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Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
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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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I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
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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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I've always been very self-motivated.
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Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts
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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
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Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive...
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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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The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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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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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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Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.
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Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.
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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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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.
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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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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
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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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Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.