Top 323 Van Quotes

It’s super cool to me when my manager screencapped Sharon Van Etten saying my album is great on Twitter and I about cried ’cause she’s a hero. And that led to… I got to have lunch with her! I got to meet a hero!

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

My wife is the expert, but I like art particularly. I like Van Gogh.

As a small child, me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.

There was a time when we were in a van and handing out the CDs at Warped Tour. We had a two-song EP that we were just handing out for free just to promote ourselves. That was on the ‘Waking the Fallen’ record, and we were just going around and handing out the CDs and stuff like that.

The chances of getting Townes to like it were very remote. When I wrote ‘Til I Gain Control Again,’ Townes Van Zandt sort of nodded. And I thought, ‘Yes!’

Mies van der Rohe’s architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

Why would I have quit Van Halen? It never happened.

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.’

Limp Bizkit is my main priority, but my side project, Black Light Burns, is still a labor of love. We have a record written, so we’ll see when that comes out. When we tour, we go out in a van and trailer with me driving.

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson’s birthday party.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn’t too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

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

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

I don’t like Van Gaal, and I am sure he doesn’t like me, either.

We will literally send a van and a photographer to the home of anybody that can say they can’t get a picture made and a photo ID and we will do it… at the state’s cost and the taxpayer cost and not at the individual cost.

Alex Van Halen… I loved his playing because he had so much energy; he made those songs exciting, along with everything else that went with him.

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 had a little delivery van, and I did work around Queens. I was also a waiter at Red Lobster, so I was working on the business in between jobs.

I never imagined in my wildest dreams when I was 17 watching Van Halen at a Donington Park rock festival and seeing Sammy Hagar later on when I was in the United States playing that I would end up with a band of guys I bought albums of.

When we talk my biggest influence, I have to say Van Gaal. He threw me in the deep end.

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn’t willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country.

Matthew Williamson has always been a favourite of mine, and I am definitely also rooting for up-and-coming designers like Michael van der Ham.

Van Gaal is receptive to other people’s ideas.

At Team U.S.A., I’ve worked with Doc Rivers, Jeff Van Gundy, Brendan Malone, not just great head coaches but assistants and great college coaches.

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.

Stan Van Gundy is a top-five coach.

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

I used to drive myself about in an old Austin van… and then have to sleep in the back because I couldn’t afford a hotel.

My dad supported me by working extra hours and giving me a little bit of extra money. He bought my camper van for me so I could go into Europe and drive from competition to competition.

It’s special – when you start playing, you are aware of names like Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie; you have seen them playing and know what great players they are. So it’s fantastic to have a chance to line up with them. I’m really pleased with how that understanding has started off.

Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie are two of the best strikers in the league and the reason I came to the Premier League was to play against people like them.

I’m grateful to Van Gaal: he brought me to United and I played 71 games so I wouldn’t say a bad word.

I already worked with Van Gaal before at the Under-20 team back in 2001. He hasn’t changed much as a coach since. He really stands out.

We’ve been touring ever since we were able to afford to buy a van, and I don’t think we’ll ever stop until something falls off or is irreparable.

Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

I’ve wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the ‘A-Team’ van or something.

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

I was a big fan of martial arts movies – Bruce Lee in particular, as cringeworthy as it is. Jean-Claude van Damme was a big inspiration as well – it’s a little embarrassing.

My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I was allowed to stay up late was to attend a demonstration.

I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai.

I can play with everyone, also with Robin van Persie.

Even if you can’t afford to buy a painting, you can experience it. You can go see the Mona Lisa and be transported. You can see the discipline and suffering in a van Gogh.

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

This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you’re paid nothing; you’re playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.

Roger Ailes champions women, whether it’s Paula Zahn, who worked for Fox, Greta Van Susteren – we’ve always had a woman in primetime – Megyn Kelly, myself; I had a primetime show.

As for the first guitar I actually bought, I believe it was a Cherry Red Kramer! I think I bought it because Eddie Van Halen played Kramer, and I remember it had a Rockinger tremolo on it.

Van Gogh cut off his ear for his art. I’m not tryin’ to cut off my ear. I’m not humiliating myself.

I liked a lot of the things other people liked – Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC – but if I compared it to my dad’s music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work – thanks, I suppose, to their parents’ lingering vinyl collections.

I look at the things that Dick Van Dyke and Danny Kaye do on television, and I think: Maybe I could do that. And I never miss a Jack Lemmon picture.

I look for players who do not just score goals but provide an attacking point, linking with other players and able to see the third man as well. Van Persie is one of the best strikers around at that.

I want to be remembered. I want to have a legacy. Van Gogh only sold one painting before he died, which would mean that he wasn’t famous when he was alive. But in 2017, I know who Van Gogh is.

‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’ was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.

My father’s family were Italian ice cream men, and the knowledge was passed on, so I ran an ice cream van while I was dating my wife.