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I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.
AL UNSER It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who e...
SAMMY HAGAR Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like E...
BUZZ OSBORNE I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.
AL UNSER When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.
DIERKS BENTLEY For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep i...
PAT METHENY There is, of course, a chicken-and-egg element here: does someone gravitate to the role of Eddie van...
STEVEN KURUTZ Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off tha...
DIMEBAG DARRELL Eddie Van Halen is certainly one of the top innovative virtuosos in history.
TED NUGENT My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace F...
DIMEBAG DARRELL Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.
ZAKK WYLDE I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu...
GREG KURSTIN I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it's not - it's someone els...
KEHLANI I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't ta...
ALVIN LEE We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're...
EDDIE VAN HALEN If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.
ROBIN WRIGHT David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about th...
AIMEE MANN When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those regist...
GARY CHERONE It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very au...
SONIA JOHNSON I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern ...
DIMEBAG DARRELL Then at high school I got an electric guitar and a book with some photos of Eddie Van Halen in it an...
LUKE BUDA We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
ED O'BRIEN I think it's good that we're not embarrassed that we're comic book creators anymore. It&...
JONATHAN HICKMAN We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becom...
DAVID LACHAPELLE Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There a...
GARY CHERONE More and more, I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a disti...
JOHN DARNIELLE He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
BILLY WILDER Musicians play music because you love... I loved to play drums since I was five. It's all I ever...
PETER CRISS We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.
BEBE REXHA Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If...
CAREY MULLIGAN People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's bec...
ADRIAN EDMONDSON So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backl...
VINCE MCMAHON We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and g...
ZAC BROWN 'Tower Heist?' That is a movie that it's hard not to name-drop, but, it's a crew of ...
MICHAEL PENA We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those pe...
ANDY BIERSACK I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the re...
JANE SIBERRY We're incredibly excited to be launching Communion in America, where not only are there literall...
BEN LOVETT I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're s...
ALBERT FINNEY We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.
JOEL MADDEN Van Halen would be awesome -- I'd just love to sit and hang with Ed [Van Halen].
DAVE NAVARRO There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
D'ARCY CARDEN Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we ...
RICHARD BACH We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to ch...
SAMANTHA MORTON We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justific...
ELVIS COSTELLO We're living at this funny time, where we're all urged to express ourselves as unique indivi...
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being ...
ASHTON KUTCHER Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're sayi...
JARON LANIER I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
GORDON BROWN If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
HARVEY MACKAY If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
ALAN K. SIMPSON Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.
DAVID LEE ROTH Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also t...
BILL WALTON I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation ...
BENNY GREEN It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especial...
JAMES TAYLOR 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 I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you p...
FRANK IERO On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going t...
KNUTE ROCKNE Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here ...
PAMELA ANDERSON Van Halen is a work in progress.
ALEX VAN HALEN It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the s...
TODD RUNDGREN My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism....
OLESYA RULIN We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobo...
ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN You're living your life the entire time in both worlds - it's not like they say, 'Action...
LUCAS HEDGES I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what m...
VANESSA KERRY Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange ...
JAMES GANDOLFINI It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forc...
PATRICK DUFFY That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out ho...
GREG NORMAN Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has...
FRED HAMPTON There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot ...
CAROLINE SHAW There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that th...
TREY PARKER We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it...
JACK BLACK Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's grea...
ALEX 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 We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
FREDDIE MERCURY I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music,...
DANIEL BRYAN Normally, we're never satisfied.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enrichin...
TIM COOK We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is...
ALAN VEGA Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right ...
SAMMY HAGAR However you feel about Dimebag, this is one of the most influential metal guitar players of the '...
GLENN DANZIG Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something...
BILLY JOEL Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree ...
ARTIE LANGE Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music......
ERIC CARR Texas is really special in that we have our own music scene, our own music chart. It's almost a ...
MAREN MORRIS I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something...
BILLY JOEL I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love ...
JENNIFER EGAN The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no ...
ALBERTA HUNTER I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn'...
WATKIN TUDOR JONES Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if th...
WASHED OUT Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our ...
VICTORIA OSTEEN I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way ...
BUZZ OSBORNE We take each week as it comes; we're juggling just like everybody else. It's all about spinn...
KATHERINE KELLY There's fears in everyone's job. Ours are in the limelight, and people think we're incre...
RAMI MALEK For me, Jersey represents going through what you can go through and still surviving. That's the ...
AJ LEE I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
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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...
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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.
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ALEX VAN HALEN On a personal level, we all get along fine.
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ALEX VAN HALEN At our age, you don't want to stop.
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ALEX VAN HALEN We're very needy people, you know.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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EDDIE TRUNK One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
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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