If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the...
EDDIE VAN HALEN When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially...
EDDIE VAN HALEN On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
EDDIE VAN HALEN If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the wo...
EDDIE VAN HALEN And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of cr...
EDDIE VAN HALEN When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it a...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started d...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from ev...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's always about the music, never about anything else.
EDDIE VAN HALEN A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiri...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like i...
EDDIE VAN HALEN The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
EDDIE VAN HALEN There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't fe...
EDDIE VAN HALEN If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wo...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up...
EDDIE VAN HALEN 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it migh...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playin...
EDDIE VAN HALEN The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending th...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
EDDIE VAN HALEN I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of cr...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a roo...
ALEX VAN HALEN I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's nice seeing everybody again - not that I am implying that I have a close personal relationship ...
ALEX VAN HALEN You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while y...
ALEX VAN HALEN Some things are impossible.
ALEX VAN HALEN There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direct...
ALEX VAN HALEN When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
ALEX VAN HALEN Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are...
ALEX VAN HALEN I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch hi...
EDDIE VAN HALEN We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.
ALEX VAN HALEN Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.
ALEX VAN HALEN On a personal level, we all get along fine.
ALEX VAN HALEN Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
ALEX VAN HALEN It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room wi...
ALEX VAN HALEN Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.
ALEX VAN HALEN I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I w...
EDDIE VAN HALEN David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Van Halen is a work in progress.
ALEX VAN HALEN It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
ALEX VAN HALEN The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
EDDIE VAN HALEN You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
ALEX VAN HALEN I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Hol...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Hol...
EDDIE VAN HALEN There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've acco...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're diff...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm j...
EDDIE VAN HALEN There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.
ALEX VAN HALEN When the tour is done, that's the end of the U.S. tour. We'll regroup and see what we're...
ALEX VAN HALEN I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Yeah, but I don't think it was because of us. There was a lot of cocaine on the console-and it wasn'...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I'...
EDDIE VAN HALEN There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same di...
ALEX VAN HALEN Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's grea...
ALEX VAN HALEN At our age, you don't want to stop.
ALEX VAN HALEN It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't u...
ALEX VAN HALEN We're very needy people, you know.
ALEX VAN HALEN You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good whi...
ALEX VAN HALEN We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.
ALEX VAN HALEN Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
ALEX VAN HALEN You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.
ALEX VAN HALEN Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
ALEX VAN HALEN There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying th...
ALEX VAN HALEN Music is a dialogue.
ALEX VAN HALEN Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.
ALEX VAN HALEN My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
EDDIE VAN HALEN I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set th...
EDDIE VAN HALEN The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was the...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is comin...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you h...
EDDIE VAN HALEN On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in t...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like t...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one cou...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefull...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drink...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I...
EDDIE VAN HALEN We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
EDDIE VAN HALEN I have selective hearing.
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's all about sound. It's that simple.
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches peop...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let&...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.
HALEN Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.
ALEX HALEN Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are...
ALEX HALEN We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.
ALEX HALEN When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
ALEX HALEN On a personal level, we all get along fine.
ALEX HALEN There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direct...
ALEX HALEN Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
ALEX HALEN Some things are impossible.
ALEX HALEN It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room wi...
ALEX HALEN You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while y...
ALEX HALEN My favorite part of the conference is going to be the candle-lighting ceremony. It's kind of a senti...
TIFFANY HALEN I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ...
VAN MORRISON You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau...
VAN MORRISON When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist...
VAN MORRISON It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all...
VAN MORRISON Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
VAN MORRISON You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
VAN MORRISON If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit...
VAN MORRISON I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
VAN MORRISON I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON What you see is what you get.
VAN MORRISON The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
VAN MORRISON There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
VAN MORRISON Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
VAN MORRISON I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
VAN MORRISON In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
VAN MORRISON I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
VAN MORRISON The future is keeping you out of the present time.
VAN MORRISON You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something...
VAN CLIBURN These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
VAN MORRISON Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
VAN MORRISON Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur...
VAN HARTMANN There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
VAN MORRISON I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p...
VAN HARTMANN In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
VAN PANOPOULOS I think that's the best Tina played all year,
VAN CHANCELLOR I hadn't slept a wink in a week. I've never been in a game that meant any more to me than this game.
VAN CHANCELLOR He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.
VAN COLEMAN [In] I Forgot That Love Existed, ... If my heart could do the thinking/ And my head begin to feel/ T...
VAN MORRISON I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. Tha...
VAN MORRISON His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all th...
VAN MORRISON [10.] Cleaning Windows ... Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast.
VAN MORRISON I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I ...
VAN MORRISON Then let's go to the funeral home. My son was beaten so badly it was unbelievable. We had to close t...
VAN HORN News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show … to damage people, to slander people. That is n...
ANITA VAN I think what the family is doing is terrible. I don't think it's their right to do these things like...
ANITA VAN This just goes to show you that what you want is a lot of people looking for stuff. You want them to...
VAN TURNER Science marches slowly, and my biggest fear all along has been that another specimen of the same ani...
VAN TURNER Give Nicole Powell credit for making a great shot,
VAN CHANCELLOR I've been tailgating here for about 15 years, and I like tailgating here better than at Auburn,
VAN HORN News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show … to damage people, to slander people. That is ...
ANITA VAN Early on in MTV's life cycle, the novelty of the video wore off.
VAN TOFFLER We had preordered and also had cheese quiche with potato crust. It was absolutely wonderful,
VAN HORN It's tough to be a really good team when you're losing guys out of your state, ... I think that's so...
VAN ALSTYNE That's how my career has been, ... It's been a battle with ups and downs.
VAN ALSTYNE It was a crime of opportunity. One of the females entered the office, there was money that had been ...
VAN ALSTYNE a small town with a big heart.
VAN ALSTYNE Great Days of Service.
VAN ALSTYNE My doctor was discouraged because the drugs that I had been taking had so many side effects, ... And...
VAN ALSTYNE There is nothing (educators) can do inside this classroom that is going to solve this problem unless...
VAN ALLEN The meet this past weekend really marked a point where we set new standards for our team at Hopkins.
VAN ALLEN We have never had this much depth on the women's sprint side. We have very healthy inter-team compet...
VAN ALLEN I couldn't be more proud of the way we're competing right now.
VAN ALLEN Having that consistency in the coaching staff has really been helping all of our athletes improve.
VAN ALLEN We are looking forward to doing a little better. We have to recharge our batteries.
VAN SWEET I guess that the homework has not been done very well.
VAN NIEUWENHUIZEN She didn't concede, and I think that was probably appropriate.
VAN COLEMAN Blake is going to be our starting third baseman. He's on a mission. I told him third base could be h...
VAN HORN It's sort of the 19th century equivalent of a blow horn, ... It was used primarily as a form of comm...
BOBBY VAN You know, every time you visit a facility, you see things that are really great, ... We don't want t...
BOBBY VAN We want to go out into different areas of the county, where it's more accessible for citizens, to gi...
BOBBY VAN I understand they've come up with some more numbers on fuel costs, but I would still like to look fo...
BOBBY VAN It would be better to issue COs than to want for the federal government to order us to build somethi...
BOBBY VAN It was approved by the president's council and the white paper was accepted.
VAN HUYSSTEEN I see the maturity of Michelle Snow, getting better and better each day.
VAN CHANCELLOR The best times we’ve had on earth are usually with those we love.
VAN HARDEN I found parts all the way from cranial elements to the tail. I found individual vertebrae and fused ...
VAN TURNER Absolutely a good idea, but I'd recommend using a grout stain instead.
VAN PURCELL I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity
VAN MORRISON I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors, ... They approached this from the po...
VAN BAKER The accessory market, I don't see them going into that in a widespread basis with lots and lots of p...
VAN BAKER The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
VAN MORRISON and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...
VAN MORRISON I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors. They approached this from the point ...
VAN BAKER has broken down the dam so that we can be brave, too.
VAN CLEVE First and foremost, Xbox 360 is a game machine, and so is anybody going to go out and buy an Xbox 36...
VAN BAKER