Van Halen Quotes

• The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.

  Fran Kranz

  Mind, Pieces, Degenerates

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• You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Stars, Rocks, People

  Interview with David Curcurito, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2012.

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• When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Simplicity

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• People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

  David Lee Roth

  People, Darkness, Sailing

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• Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

  David Lee Roth

  Rain, Parades, Vans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Attitude, Kids, People

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• Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Music, Thinking, Idols

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• The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.

  Alex Van Halen

  Together, Vans, Get Back

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• I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.

  Eric Clapton

  Blow, Together, Jam

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• Van Halen is a work in progress.

  Alex Van Halen

  Progress, Vans, Work In Progress

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• David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Song, Stupid, Home

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• The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Names, Long, Legacy

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• Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

  Tony Iommi

  Influential, Vans

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• You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

  Steve Vai

  Rocks, Historical, Talent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well......I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.

  David Gilmour

  Thinking, Play, Ideas

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• If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.

  Tom Morello

  Fate, Champion, Battle

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• I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

  Paul McCartney

  Player, Vans

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• I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Successful, Vans

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Greatness, Crucible, Special

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• At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Mountain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

  John Darnielle

  Real, People, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Dad, People, Missing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.

  Frank Iero

  Mean, Player, Practice

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• I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

  Sammy Hagar

  Careers, Fans, Sides

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• You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.

  Gary Cherone

  People, Stereotype, Break

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