Van Halen Quotes
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I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
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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 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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I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
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The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.
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Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
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The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
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A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
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I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
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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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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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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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Van Halen is a work in progress.
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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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Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a rock guitarists time is spent playing rhythm, it's important to learn to do it well .. learning lead should come after you can play solid backup and have the sound of the chords in your head...
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An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance...
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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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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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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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Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
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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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Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.