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VAN MORRISON Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
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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 A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
HENRY VAN DYKE Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
HENRY VAN DYKE It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best ...
HENRY VAN DYKE To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...
HENRY VAN DYKE There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad ab...
HENRY VAN DYKE Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are...
HENRY VAN DYKE In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...
HENRY VAN DYKE Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
HENRY VAN DYKE What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
HENRY VAN DYKE