Van Halen Quotes
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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 used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.
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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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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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Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
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You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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Van Halen is a work in progress.
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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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It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.
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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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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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Well a good writer writes, a good musician listens to a lot more than he actually composes, and if you're going to do lyrics - well, there's a Freudian slip. That's not even a slip, that's a Freudian move: I said going to do lyrics. If you really want it to ring true, you'll live it first. Go really get your heart broken!
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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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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 look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
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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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Bass is for people who can't play guitar...
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The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
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I'm a natural behind the camera... My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here... When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there.
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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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The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.
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I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
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Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.