Van Halen Quotes
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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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If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
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The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.
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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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The best time is during the struggle. The top of the mountain is usually small, freezing and lonesome. To this day I'm continually reinvesting myself in something new. I'm not afraid to start as a beginner in anything.
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I've always been very self-motivated.
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Bass is for people who can't play guitar...
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You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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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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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
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Van Halen is a work in progress.
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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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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 most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
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I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.
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I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.
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Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth. Donn convinced them to change it to the last name of the guitar player and drummer.
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Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
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And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just sent a bad message to a troubled generation.
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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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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.
