Van Halen Quotes
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Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
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Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.
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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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If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
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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 problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
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I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
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You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
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A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
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In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.
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Van Halen is a work in progress.
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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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I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
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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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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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Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?
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The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.
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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 look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
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I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich and famous. I've got to figure out where I want to go and just get this thing aimed. I wrote this song ["Right Now"] and I kept singing it every day .
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You just went up and started playing, the audience got into it, and it was just a great high experience. That's what I kind of invented with "Mas Tequila" in Cabo.
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Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.
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Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.