Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic. — Van Morrison
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. — Tom Morello
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht! — David Lee Roth
The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships. — Peter S. Beagle
Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale. — Langston Hughes
Quickly fetch the water during the rising tide. — Thai Proverbs
Come up and be a kite,
On a diamond flight! — Kate Bush
Short Halen Quotes
Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty. — Robert Jordan
The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen. — Alex Van Halen
When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen. — Dierks Bentley
My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie. — Dave Mustaine
Van Halen is a work in progress. — Alex Van Halen
Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived. — Zakk Wylde
I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often. — Paul McCartney
Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential. — Tony Iommi
I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics. — Alex Van Halen
I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race. — Al Unser
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Eddie Van Halen Quotes
I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together. — Eric Clapton
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. — Gary Cherone
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. — Sammy Hagar
What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional, it was hard to avoid copying Eddie Van Halen. He was basically the *bleep* back then. — Tom Morello
It's the most natural progression for me to becoming a singing sensation next. And so many people have offered to be on it. Eddie Van Halen... and Prince, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper will probably be a backup trio. — Paul Reubens
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. — John Darnielle
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. — Lee Ann Womack
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. — Alvin Lee
Van Halen Quotes
Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful. — Ritchie Blackmore
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. — Eddie Van Halen
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. — Eddie Van Halen
The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates. — Fran Kranz
Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars. — David Lee Roth
You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made. — Steve Vai
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. — Sammy Hagar
The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen. — Taylor Hawkins
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music. — Eddie Van Halen
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. — Sammy Hagar
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. — Dweezil Zappa
It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing. — Eddie Van Halen
Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things. — Eric Carr
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. — Sammy Hagar
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band. — Sammy Hagar
Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun. — Henry Rollins
I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own. — Frank Iero
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. — Gary Cherone
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. — Sammy Hagar
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser. — Henry Rollins
There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen. — Bob Lefsetz
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years. — Gary Cherone
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. — Sammy Hagar
Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth. Donn convinced them to change it to the last name of the guitar player and drummer. — Sammy Hagar
I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff. — Steve Vai
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. — Sammy Hagar
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