Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

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

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

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.

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.

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.

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts

You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.

Let's just start over", gurgled the hagget's voice. We cannot give up now.

Malcolm X and Edmund Burke shared an appreciation of this important insight, this painful truth--that the state wants men to be weak and timid, not strong and proud.

Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.