Eddie Van Halen Quotes

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

Eddie Van Halen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: January 26, 1955

Topics

FunnyMusicMeMusiciansRock Star

I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

Joe Nichols

ChallengeMeTryingCountrySinger

I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

TimeRememberNowFirst TimeFirst

After 9/11, the U.S. seemed vulnerable for the first time in a long time. We were no longer the superpower that no other country could touch. I thought, 'When and how did that dominance begin?'

Jennifer Egan

TimeThoughtLongCountryLong Time

We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.

Andrew Haigh

ChangeMyselfDayEvery DayChoice

When you close a tab or when you finish an article on the web, it's gone unless you go back into your history or search for it or explicitly try to find it. Apps on your phone have this special property: they hang around. In some ways, they're more like a book on a bookshelf than they are like web pages.

Robin Sloan

HistoryBookSearchYouFindPhone

My mother has the same kind of an arm, even today at 74. She could throw a ball from second base to home plate with something on it. I got my arm from my mother.

Roberto Clemente

MotherHomeTodayKindSheSame

I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself.

Ruth Bernhard

BeautyBeautifulMyselfNeverAlways

It's not that, living in Pakistan, I feel an enormous constraint on how I can write and what I can say; rather, I recognize that one has to navigate these things... Am I aware of things that one could say that would be risky or that could be dangerous? Certainly I'm aware of those things.

Mohsin Hamid

FeelI CanDangerousSayLiving

Congress is unpopular. Incumbents are unpopular.

Joshua Micah Marshall

CongressUnpopular

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

Jose Mujica

LiveEnergyStandPovertyWant

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Josef Albers

ArtPerceptionColorNeverSeen

The business world needs the best talent from both genders to compete in an ever-changing environment and drive innovation.

Denise Morrison

BusinessInnovationBestTalent

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