Halen Quotations

The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.

Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.

Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen changed everything; I don't necessarily like everything he did, but he definitely changed everything.

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.

Halen pinned all of his competitors in less than 30 seconds.

My wife Melissa and daughters Deaven and Halen are the things I enjoy most, but I have some great friends and partners that are like blood as well.

I think when you have a top-line superstar act, it's a big risk. For Van Halen it worked, but there was an adjustment period.

We brought out the old catalog and the majority of the Van Halen fans did appreciate it, but in the end, they wanted their Dave.

Then at high school I got an electric guitar and a book with some photos of Eddie Van Halen in it and my grades went downhill.

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.

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

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.

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.

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

I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

Eddie Van Halen is certainly one of the top innovative virtuosos in history.