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"I used to have a drug
problem, now I make enough money."
"I used to jog but the ice-cubes kept
falling out of my glass."
"We're having a party in your town and
YOU'RE invited!"
"Here today, gone later today"
- about one-hit-wonder glam bands I think.
"Money can't buy you happiness, but
it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside
it"
probably a mis-quote
"I live and breathe and do four times
as much four times as fast as anyone else."
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"The beauty of rock and roll is that
there are no rules and no
schools. You just make it up as you go."
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"Audience participation should extend
from onstage to backstage
to under the stage"
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"We're gonna party with 10000 of our
closest friends.."
"I'm a family man. I personally started
3 or 4 families last year."
"The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal,
it's the competition!"
"Oh my God! This is David Lee Roth of
Van Halen Live! in front of
your steaming eyes"
"Always had it, always WILL have it!"
"Music videos are like girlfriends.
I'm constantly amazed on what
other people doing"
"Let's play with the career, if we can't
find anything else to do"
"Hey don't be squirtin' water at me...
I'm gonna fuck your
girlfriend, pal!"
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"There's
no pot of gold for us [Van Halen] at the the end of the rainbow,
we're just here to ride the rainbow"
"Happiness is a bathing suit"
"I think the two most difficult things
to deal with in life are failure and success"
"We wouldn't lie to ya! We just met
ya! Lyin's for LATER in the relationship..."
"People say that life is a cesspool
of darkness and dispair. Well
we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!"
"The world's a stage, and I want the
brightest spot" |
"I've been going steady with my girlfriend
for maybe two, maybe
three... days!"
"If you can't do it in a white T-Shirt
a pair of jeans under one
white lightbulb, you can't do it!"
about live performance, Headbangers Ball MTV Europe.
"I am not this way the way I am, 'coz
I am in a band. I am in a
band, 'coz I am this way"
, Off the Record
"Nobody's going to get a hot dog at
my concert!"
, Off the Record
"It doesn't get better, it doesn't get
worse, but it sure gets
different!"
, Off the Record
"A lot of rock bands are truly a legend
in their own minds."
, Off the Record
"People ask me how far I've come. And
I tell them 12 feet. From
the audience to the stage!"
, Off the Record (and memory)
"We've been together maybe ten years,
straight out of high school
and stuff. I'd say that in the whole ten years we've been together,
we've put in ... oh .. a good seven or eight hours of rehearsal."
, "Eddie van Halen" by Dan Hedges
"He who knows how will always work for
he who knows why."
"With a little budget and some creativity,
you can sell a
toothbrush to a camel. With a bigger budget and some more
creativity, you can sell him two toothbrushes. With an even bigger
budget and a *lot* of creativity, you can not only sell him a dozen
toothbrushes, but he will walk away wondering how he ever got along
without them... and he'll jump on the mailing list."
, quoted from memory
Dreams:
"Trouble with dreams is, a lot of them do come true. By the
time
they do, you've turned into somebody else. That's what happens
with
time... It's always been important to me, that my dream come true,
when I wanted. We turned our dream into reality by not even really
pursueing either one. We didn't pursue the dream and we certainly
didn't pursue reality!"
, Off the Record
Imitators:
"If you imagine a hundred people running down the street in
a road
race and one of 'em is in front; ninetynine are in back. Ninetynine
in back go: 'How come Ray is in front of the pack all the time ?'
He is wearing red shorts...
Cut to the next race: You see ninetynine people in red shorts.
Ray is still in front. They go... 'It must be... the shoes!'"
speaking about VH copying groups, Headbangers Ball MTV Europe
Inhibitions:
"Inhibitions are like vices. And you work your way thru them.
We
worked our way thru all the possible vices that one could get
involved in, as the band started. There are hundreds of them and
they were all detrimental to us. And now I have the four or five
that I like the best and I just do those all the time. As you work
your way thru these vices, you lose your inhibitions."
, Off the Record
Life:
"There's a spark, some kind of energy. Energy is what it's
all
about. When you celebrate something, you're making energy. When
you
have a thought, your making energy. When you make love, your having
energy. When you give birth, it's energy. And the sad things in
life are loss of energy. Somebody dies, something dies, lack of it,
no energy. Something stops, your car grinds to a halt, and you
gotta just leave it there by the side of the Santa Monica Freeway,
it's loss of energy. And it takes different buttons to hit that
spark in each person. And some people need a hockey game, and some
people need a political rally, and the rest of us need Van Halen!"
, Off the Record
Life II:
"Life is not a popularity contest. Do not expect to see Valentino
in the mirror."
, Off the Record
MTV:
"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television.
You
get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch
every channel, every show. And then you become a little more
selective and more selective, until ultimately...
You wind up with a radio."
, Late Night with David Letterman (a TV show)
New Years Resolution:
"Doggie dog world that it is, I think now it's a good time
on
New Years, to decide whether you're gonna be a hot dog or a little
weeny. And I have chosen to remain a little wiener for one more
season."
, Late Night with David Letterman (a TV show)
Rock'n'Roll I:
"Somebody asks me, `Dave, what;s it mean when you say somebody's
rocking or somebody's not rocking' I say, `I'll illustrate: a guy
with black socks, black shoes, blue and white bermuda shorts, hawaiian luau shirt,
a Nikon and a jackknife around his neck, zinc
oxide on his nose, a pair of sunglasses, a fishing hat with all
the
badges on it, and he's staring up the tall buildings - that's
rock & roll.' Now, the freedom to do that is very serious,
but the
picture is a crackup."
, "Eddie van Halen" by Dan Hedges
Rock'n'Roll II:
"There's a little Van Halen in all of us, and we're just trying
to
bring it out. It's like something bursts inside of you, something
that makes you not care what people around you are thinking. It makes you invincible,
like if a car hit you, nothing would happen
to you. It should make you feel like the Charge of the Light
Brigade, even if you're just going to the bathroom. When you do
that on a mass level, it becomes hysterical, not political. It
expands to a large group of people not caring about conventions,
just getting in the thrill of being themselves. That experience
is
about the audience, not us. All we do is provide the soundtrack.
Van Halen's got nothing to hide. What you've walked into is a
self-created fantasyland where everything happens four times as
quick. Anything you desire you can find here, whatever your vice.
Whatever, somebody else can't do in his 9-5 job, I can do in
rock'n'roll."
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Rock'n'Roll III:
"You want to know if we're animals ? When I'm on stage with
the
volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of
people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for
thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's
animal.
People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in
the
gutter. Van Halen likes to keep things simple. All we're doing
is
giving our daily lives melodies, beats and titles. What we sing
about is what we live. It's the glamour, the tinsel, the non-stop,
late-night, endless party that is the crest of the biggest wave
with spray in your face. It's the laugh in the face of death blown
out of proportion, mutated reality that is the wonderful, wacky,
crazy, cutup, cutey worlds of rock'n'roll."
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Rock'n'Roll V:
"What are the characteristics of a good rock'n'roller ? Rock'n'roll
is in you. You either got it or you don't. You can't fake it. It
has to be inside you just itching to get out. And when it does,
POW! It's like a dam bursting. That's Van Halen."
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"Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use
it.."
, to a girl in the audience
"The girls in Sweden are fantastic.
Last night when I went to bed
in my hotel room, there was this girl banging on my hotel room
door. She screamed and begged me to open the door. I shouted to
her, that she should stop, but she continued. In the end I had
to
get up and let her out"
"Hey, your girlfriend was partying with us backstage
before the
show. She had a message for you: mmfp mmf uff fmfff mnm."
- DLR was apparently pissed at some guy in the audience,
and he had the house lights on and was telling security
to throw him out.
"I'm gonna stand up for rock and roll
tonite, baby... In fact, by
the time we hit the stage, I'll be lucky to just stand up!
Hey-Hey!!!"
-DLR in an interview before the 1983 U.S. Festival
Roth cites Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great
and Ivan the Terrible as influences.
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