Van Halen Quotes

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If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.

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.

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

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

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

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

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.

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

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

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

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.

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

When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

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.

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.

Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things.

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.

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.

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

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.

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.

I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

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.

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

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

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.

I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.

People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy?

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.

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.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

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.

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.

It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.

I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.

I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.

I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for 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.

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.

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.

The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.