Van Quotes

Van Quote of the day

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

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.

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

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

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

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

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.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

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

The sadness will last forever.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

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

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.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

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

To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

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

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.

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.

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.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

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

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.

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

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.

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

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?

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

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.