Vans Quotes - Page 18

• There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Greatness, Crucible, Special

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• Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.

  James A. Michener

  Pride, Artist, Names

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• My stage name has always been 'Armin van Buuren.' When I really started DJ'ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits under my belt under the name 'Armin', so I couldn't really change that anymore.

  Armin van Buuren

  Names, Belts, Stage

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• I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

  Billy Childish

  War, Moustache, Used

  "The importance of being Childish" by Tim Teeman, The Times, December 02, 2006.

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• What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional, it was hard to avoid copying Eddie Van Halen. He was basically the *bleep* back then.

  Tom Morello

  Mean, Player, Guitar

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• Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

  Tony Iommi

  Influential, Van Halen

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• I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.

  Eric Clapton

  Blow, Together, Jam

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

  Dave Mustaine

  First Impression, Firsts, Van Halen

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• Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

  Greil Marcus

  Singers, Modern, Popular Music

  "When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison". Book by Greil Marcus, 2010.

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• I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to deal with the fact that scientists are going to want to catch him and study him. His big enemy is not going to be Dr. Van Helsing today, it's going to be the doctor who wants to put him in a lab and get his blood for what it can do to cure disease or grant immortality.

  Anne Rice

  Hero, Thinking, Blood

  "With The Wolf Gift, Anne Rice Returns to Supernatural Horror". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams, David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. April 18, 2012.

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• It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

  Antonin Artaud

  Storm, Climate, Earth

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.484, Univ of California Press

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• I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

  Gus Van Sant

  Independent, Thinking, Guy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 5, 2003.

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• 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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Stars, Rocks, Years

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• Louis van Gaal has nothing more to learn.

  Louis van Gaal

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• We like to kidnap them in a van, and take then somewhere dangerous... SURPRISE!!

  Gerard Way

  Surprise, Dangerous

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• That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Wall, Night

  "Miles of Aisles". Live album by Joni Mitchell, November 1, 1974.

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• The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

  Steven Pressfield

  Believe, Artist, Effort

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• If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

  Jasper Fforde

  Art, Hate, Passion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

  Steve Earle

  Coffee, Cowboy, Boots

  "Q&A: Earle takes songwriting break to honor Van Zandt". Interview with Robert Levine, www.reuters.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.

  Clare Boylan

  Depression, Mean, Yesterday

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• Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Night, Giving

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.

  Pat Ament

  Climbing, Ideas, Would Be

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• Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Children, Night

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• I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

  John Olsen

  Art, Thinking, Together

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• I joined Arsenal to play with Robin van persie - not replace him

  Olivier Giroud

  Play, Robins, Arsenal

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