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On Working a Job & Music:
"The only honest job I've ever had was a paper route and that was to buy a musical instrument." (The Van Halen Story: The Early Years DVD).
On David Lee Roth following the commotion with him after the 1997
Music Awards:
"Well, he's an intelligent, well-read guy. But it's like he can't connect the
dots somehow." (Guitar World, March 1998).
On how he developed his own style:
"I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I
started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started
getting my own style." (Guitar Classics XI--Guitar Presents #27, 1995)
On Musical Inspiration:
"Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot." (The "pot" he's talking about is the toilet--not a drug reference. Guitar World, March 1998)
On musicianship in general:
"You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing." (Guitar
Classics XI--Guitar Presents #27, 1995)
On success in music:
"There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started."
On the original split with David Lee Roth:
"I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is."
On covering "Dancing in the Streets":
"David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. Come on -- Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music."
On music collaboration/competition:
"Differences of opinion are part of collaborating with another human being. But music is not a competitive thing. I don't want to deal with someone who's in competition with me. I want to work together to make music." (Zen Guitar)
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