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

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.

As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

Don't let anyone make you feel that you don't deserve the good things that happen in your life

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.