Van Halen Quotes
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Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
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Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
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Bass is for people who can't play guitar...
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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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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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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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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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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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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
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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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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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Van Halen is a work in progress.
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When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now.
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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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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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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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The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.