Van Halen Quotes
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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
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Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
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Van Halen is a work in progress.
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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'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
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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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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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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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The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
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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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Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.
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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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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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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 only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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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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I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
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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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It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.
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The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
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The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.
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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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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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Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.