Quotes About Van Halen

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

People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy?

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.

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.

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.

It wasn't until the fourth or fifth Van Halen record that people would go, 'Wow! You're singing backgrounds on those records. That's not David Lee Roth.' And I go, 'Hell, no! That's not David Lee Roth.'

I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.

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

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.

I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.

I think if there's any one band that every member of Sons of Apollo has been influenced by, I think Van Halen is the common ground for all five of us.

I'm still obsessed with Kiss. I'm still obsessed with Van Halen. I guess we don't change that much from being kids. Either we don't change that much, or we just have really good taste.

Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

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.

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.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

I was in a party band in the early '80s, and we played Sabbath and Ozzy songs as well as Rush and Van Halen... all that kinds of stuff.

Just about every rock band and every guitar player from 1964 to 1984. To me, that's the golden period of rock. From the first Beatles album hitting America to the last Van Halen album with David Lee Roth. That's where all my favorite rock exists.

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

the real Van Halen died with the departure of David. I say that as both a compliment and a condemnation, for David's exit brought about the wreckage of a band that was at the height of its powers and popularity and could have dominated the music scene for another decade had common sense and reason prevailed.