If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the...
EDDIE VAN HALEN When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially...
EDDIE VAN HALEN On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
EDDIE VAN HALEN If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the wo...
EDDIE VAN HALEN And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of cr...
EDDIE VAN HALEN When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it a...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started d...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from ev...
EDDIE VAN HALEN A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiri...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like i...
EDDIE VAN HALEN The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
EDDIE VAN HALEN There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't fe...
EDDIE VAN HALEN If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wo...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up...
EDDIE VAN HALEN 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it migh...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playin...
EDDIE VAN HALEN The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending th...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
EDDIE VAN HALEN I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of cr...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch hi...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I w...
EDDIE VAN HALEN David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
EDDIE VAN HALEN You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Hol...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Hol...
EDDIE VAN HALEN There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've acco...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're diff...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm j...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Yeah, but I don't think it was because of us. There was a lot of cocaine on the console-and it wasn'...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I'...
EDDIE VAN HALEN My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
EDDIE VAN HALEN I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set th...
EDDIE VAN HALEN The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was the...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is comin...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you h...
EDDIE VAN HALEN On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in t...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like t...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one cou...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefull...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drink...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I...
EDDIE VAN HALEN We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
EDDIE VAN HALEN I have selective hearing.
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's all about sound. It's that simple.
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches peop...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let&...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Jump!
VAN HALEN It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a roo...
ALEX VAN HALEN It's nice seeing everybody again - not that I am implying that I have a close personal relationship ...
ALEX VAN HALEN You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while y...
ALEX VAN HALEN Some things are impossible.
ALEX VAN HALEN There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direct...
ALEX VAN HALEN When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
ALEX VAN HALEN Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are...
ALEX VAN HALEN We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.
ALEX VAN HALEN Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.
ALEX VAN HALEN On a personal level, we all get along fine.
ALEX VAN HALEN Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
ALEX VAN HALEN It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room wi...
ALEX VAN HALEN Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.
ALEX VAN HALEN Van Halen is a work in progress.
ALEX VAN HALEN The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
ALEX VAN HALEN Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
ALEX VAN HALEN There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.
ALEX VAN HALEN When the tour is done, that's the end of the U.S. tour. We'll regroup and see what we're...
ALEX VAN HALEN There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same di...
ALEX VAN HALEN Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's grea...
ALEX VAN HALEN At our age, you don't want to stop.
ALEX VAN HALEN It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't u...
ALEX VAN HALEN We're very needy people, you know.
ALEX VAN HALEN You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good whi...
ALEX VAN HALEN We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.
ALEX VAN HALEN Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
ALEX VAN HALEN You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.
ALEX VAN HALEN Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
ALEX VAN HALEN There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying th...
ALEX VAN HALEN Music is a dialogue.
ALEX VAN HALEN Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.
ALEX VAN HALEN Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.
HALEN Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.
ALEX HALEN Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are...
ALEX HALEN We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.
ALEX HALEN When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
ALEX HALEN On a personal level, we all get along fine.
ALEX HALEN There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direct...
ALEX HALEN Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
ALEX HALEN Some things are impossible.
ALEX HALEN It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room wi...
ALEX HALEN You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while y...
ALEX HALEN My favorite part of the conference is going to be the candle-lighting ceremony. It's kind of a senti...
TIFFANY HALEN People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to ...
EDDIE HUANG So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president -...
EDDIE VEDDER The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
EDDIE VEDDER I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get...
EDDIE VEDDER Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
EDDIE REDMAYNE Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
EDDIE TRUNK Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lo...
EDDIE REDMAYNE Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respe...
EDDIE TRUNK It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
EDDIE VEDDER As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably m...
EDDIE VEDDER I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
EDDIE VEDDER If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
EDDIE VEDDER At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adr...
EDDIE VEDDER You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amo...
EDDIE VEDDER It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of po...
EDDIE VEDDER I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
EDDIE VEDDER The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we hav...
EDDIE VEDDER When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive mu...
EDDIE VEDDER Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
EDDIE VEDDER It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
EDDIE VEDDER Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
EDDIE VEDDER The love received is the love that is saved.
EDDIE VEDDER Caffeine. The gateway drug.
EDDIE VEDDER I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.
EDDIE TRUNK I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artist...
EDDIE TRUNK I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I ...
EDDIE TRUNK My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
EDDIE TRUNK I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I lik...
EDDIE TRUNK I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever conside...
EDDIE TRUNK When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the in...
EDDIE TRUNK I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.
EDDIE TRUNK Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
EDDIE TRUNK It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a gro...
EDDIE TRUNK One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
EDDIE TRUNK People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a me...
EDDIE TRUNK I've known Bret Michaels forever.
EDDIE TRUNK I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, &#...
EDDIE TRUNK One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lo...
EDDIE TRUNK I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some v...
EDDIE TRUNK The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that...
EDDIE TRUNK VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.
EDDIE TRUNK How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the materia...
EDDIE TRUNK One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without que...
EDDIE TRUNK The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? ...
EDDIE TRUNK People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always think...
EDDIE TRUNK Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like J...
EDDIE TRUNK Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.
EDDIE TRUNK They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that....
EDDIE SLOVIK I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime y...
EDDIE SLOVIK I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
EDDIE SLOVIK Army life don't agree with me.
EDDIE SLOVIK The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too...
EDDIE SLOVIK I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
EDDIE SLOVIK I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
EDDIE SLOVIK Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
EDDIE SLOVIK Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
EDDIE SLOVIK Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER I am not a labor hater.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy ...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, ...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was bas...
EDDIE REDMAYNE What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
EDDIE REDMAYNE They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they'...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great...
EDDIE REDMAYNE When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
EDDIE REDMAYNE Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world want...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory...
EDDIE REDMAYNE As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about su...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly ch...
EDDIE REDMAYNE If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordi...
EDDIE REDMAYNE What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by rac...
EDDIE REDMAYNE A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfl...
EDDIE REDMAYNE That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear...
EDDIE REDMAYNE