Van Halen Quotes
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Van Halen Quotes & Sayings
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Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts
— Eddie Van Halen
The president's stump speeches could carry the forced air of a Van Halen reunion tour with Sammy Hagar in for David Lee Roth.
— Mark Leibovich
It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.
— Eddie Van Halen
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
— Gary Cherone
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
— Eddie Van Halen
Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.
— Alex Van Halen
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
— Eddie Van Halen
Music is a dialogue.
— Alex Van Halen
Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
— Billy Gibbons
We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.
— Alex Van Halen
Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.
— Alex Van Halen
When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
— Alex Van Halen
People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy?
— Ysabeau S. Wilce
I boil the strings so they stretch.
— Eddie Van Halen
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
— Eddie Van Halen
There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
— Eddie Van Halen
Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!
— Eddie Van Halen
I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.
— Eric Clapton
When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.
— Dierks Bentley
I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
— Alex Van Halen
You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
— Eddie Van Halen
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
I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.
— Eddie Van Halen
Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
— Eddie Van Halen
You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
— Eddie Van Halen
You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.
— Alex Van Halen
Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
— Alex Van Halen
I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.
— Steve Vai
It's all about sound. It's that simple.
— Eddie Van Halen
We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
— Eddie Van Halen
I've heard my share of Van Halen. I never liked rock.
— Brad Paisley
The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.
— Fran Kranz
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
— Eddie Van Halen
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
— Eddie Van Halen
I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
— Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen is a work in progress.
— Alex Van Halen
I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
— Eddie Van Halen
Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
— Eddie Van Halen
If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
— David Lee Roth
I'm just a normal schmo like anyone else.
— Eddie Van Halen
Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
— Alex Van Halen
I have selective hearing.
— Eddie Van Halen
Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.
— Alex Van Halen
Some things are impossible.
— Alex Van Halen
I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
— Eddie Van Halen
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
— Chuck Eddy
Bass is for people who can't play guitar
— Eddie Van Halen
It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.
— Gary Cherone
It's always about the music, never about anything else.
— Eddie Van Halen
There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
— Alex Van Halen
I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.
— Paul McCartney
It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
— Eddie Van Halen
If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
— Gary Cherone
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
The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
— Alex Van Halen
I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
— Eddie Van Halen
When the tour is done, that's the end of the U.S. tour. We'll regroup and see what we're going to do.
— Alex Van Halen
I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
— Eddie Van Halen
Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
— Alex Van Halen
The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
— Eddie Van Halen
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
— Dimebag Darrell
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
— Eddie Van Halen
At our age, you don't want to stop.
— Alex Van Halen
My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.
— Dave Mustaine
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
— Henry Rollins
There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.
— Alex Van Halen
There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.
— Lee Ann Womack
I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
— Eddie Van Halen
I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.
— Al Unser
It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it.
— Alex Van Halen
We're very needy people, you know.
— Alex Van Halen
Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them
— Eddie Van Halen
Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
— Eddie Van Halen
On a personal level, we all get along fine.
— Alex Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.
— Tony Iommi