Top 100 Quotes About Halen
#1. More and more, I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. 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
#2. It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
Eddie Van Halen
#3. 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
#4. Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music ... I like a lot of different things.
Eric Carr
#5. The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
Henry Rollins
#6. Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.
Zakk Wylde
#7. My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.
Dave Mustaine
#8. Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
Chuck Eddy
#9. The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
Alex Van Halen
#10. Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.
David Lee Roth
#11. 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
#12. When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
Gary Cherone
#13. It's the most natural progression for me to becoming a singing sensation next. And so many people have offered to be on it. Eddie Van Halen ... and Prince, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper will probably be a backup trio.
Paul Reubens
#14. Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
Sammy Hagar
#15. 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
#16. If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.
Sammy Hagar
#17. 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
#18. I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
Alex Van Halen
#19. Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
Gary Cherone
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.
Tony Iommi
#24. 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
#25. When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
Sammy Hagar
#26. In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
Sammy Hagar
#27. The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.
Fran Kranz
#28. 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
#29. The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
Eddie Van Halen
#30. 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
#31. When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.
Dierks Bentley
#32. I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.
Paul McCartney
#33. I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.
Steve Vai
#34. The single-biggest proof that the Dixie Chicks are Van Halen is their audience; they are singing to the same teenage boys, except those boys are now teenage girls.
Chuck Klosterman
#35. 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
#36. There is, of course, a chicken-and-egg element here: does someone gravitate to the role of Eddie van Halen because he shares similar personality traits or did portraying Eddie Van Halen give rise to those qualities?
Steven Kurutz
#37. 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
#38. What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional, it was hard to avoid copying Eddie Van Halen. He was basically the *bleep* back then.
Tom Morello
#39. I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
Dimebag Darrell
#40. I've heard my share of Van Halen. I never liked rock.
Brad Paisley
#41. 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
#42. Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
Billy Gibbons
#43. Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
Robert Jordan
#44. I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.
Eric Clapton
#45. I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.
Al Unser
#46. Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen changed everything; I don't necessarily like everything he did, but he definitely changed everything.
Buzz Osborne
#47. I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.
Alvin Lee
#48. 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
#49. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that.
Henry Rollins
#50. The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
Taylor Hawkins
#51. I was a huge 'Pyromania' fan. You would never expect it, but I was in love with Iron Maiden; I was such a huge fan. I went to a lot of rock stuff like Van Halen, too.
Tiesto
#52. You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.
Steve Vai
#53. When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
Sammy Hagar
#54. It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
Sammy Hagar
#55. It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.
Gary Cherone
#56. Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
Gary Cherone
#57. If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
David Lee Roth
#58. I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.
Gary Cherone
#59. when Roth joined, all of Mammoth's followers "seriously thought [the Van Halen brothers] had ruined Mammoth," telling Edward, "'Wow. I can't believe you did this. This guy sucks.' Eddie was apologetic, but he'd say to us, 'Be nice to him. He's okay.
Greg Renoff
#60. My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.
Dimebag Darrell
#61. 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
#62. When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
Alex Van Halen
#63. A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
Eddie Van Halen
#67. It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
Eddie Van Halen
#68. Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with? Probably the one that I haven't hung most with recently.
Eddie Van Halen
#69. I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
Eddie Van Halen
#70. 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
#71. You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
Eddie Van Halen
#72. 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
#73. I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
Eddie Van Halen
#74. Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.
Eddie Van Halen
#75. I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
Eddie Van Halen
#77. We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
Eddie Van Halen
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.
Alex Van Halen
#83. There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
Eddie Van Halen
#84. It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?
Eddie Van Halen
#85. People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy?
Ysabeau S. Wilce
#86. Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.
Eddie Van Halen
#87. Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.
Alex Van Halen
#88. It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it.
Alex Van Halen
#89. When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
Eddie Van Halen
#92. 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
#93. I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
Eddie Van Halen
#94. 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
#95. We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
Eddie Van Halen
#96. There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.
Alex Van Halen
#97. 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.
Eddie Van Halen
#98. 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
#99. Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
Alex Van Halen
#100. It's always about the music, never about anything else.
Eddie Van Halen
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