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He has Van Gogh's ear for music. -- Billy Wilder
I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown. -- Dennis Miller
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
I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old. -- Takeshi Kitano
The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and 'different' pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten. -- Suzy Menkes
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. -- Matthew Sweet
I was a huge 'Pyromania' fan. You would never expect it, but I was in love with Iron Maiden; I was such a huge fan. I went to a lot of rock stuff like Van Halen, too. -- Tiesto
I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person. -- Maurice Sendak
My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff. -- Dimebag Darrell
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. -- Stephen Fry
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll. -- Eddie Van Halen
Van Gogh was impulsive. -- Joni Mitchell
I have Van Gogh's ear for music -- Stephen Fry
Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential. -- Tony Iommi
Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders. -- Ron Atkinson
Van Der Vaart's movement is always on the move -- Chris Coleman
Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh] -- Irving Stone
If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear. -- Benjamin Franklin
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. -- Arthur Koestler
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh] -- Irving Stone
Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up. -- Dave Foley
Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival. -- Billy Cannon
Took me by the hand, she's gonna love me in my Chevy Van. -- Sammy Johns
Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade. -- David Lee Roth
During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings -- Joseph Pisani
I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh] -- Irving Stone
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh. -- David Bailey
The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me. -- John Dyer
I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that. -- Vincente Minnelli
[Van Jones] you should be a racial polemicist. You should be a racial reconciler. -- Mary Matalin
So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses. -- Bonnie Bassler
I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often. -- Paul McCartney
You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived. -- Zakk Wylde
There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation. -- Suzanne Somers
Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me. -- Andrew Jackson
I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of. -- Ellen Forney
I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot! -- Colin Mochrie
I have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot! -- Colin Mochrie
I said about Van Jones . Be careful. This guy is extraordinarily dangerous and he is smart. -- Glenn Beck
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It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh] -- Irving Stone
Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet? -- Billy Gibbons
You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made. -- Steve Vai
I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable. -- Billy Childish
I creep like a thief, no doubt the man's swift, I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cleef -- Diamond D
I have a good ear for music, just like Van Gogh had a good ear for art. -- Jarod Kintz
For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing. -- Garrett Fort
If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would. -- Ted Shackelford
I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff. -- Steve Vai
158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block -- Big Daddy Kane
Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans I've ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat. -- Mark Leiren-Young
When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen. -- Dierks Bentley
As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme. -- Chris Daughtry
Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music. -- Greil Marcus
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years. -- Gary Cherone
I'm as good as Jean-Claude Van Damme when it comes to martial arts. Sounding a little cocky aren't I -- Talisa Soto
I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life. -- Seth Rogen
You cannot be the good all the time "? sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh] -- Irving Stone
Rip Van Winkle, who said, Don't make the bed; I'm just going to the bathroom. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie. -- Dave Mustaine
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. -- Jack Kerouac
I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen. -- Sammy Hagar
I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race. -- Al Unser
I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown." -- Dennis Miller
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. -- Bill Griffith
If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records. -- David Lee Roth
I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back. -- John Scalzi
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser. -- Henry Rollins
I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh. -- Billy Childish
Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside. -- Mike Svob
The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates. -- Fran Kranz
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands. -- Dimebag Darrell
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? -- Peter D. Kramer
If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso. -- Juliet Stevenson
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
The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain. -- Billy Cannon
'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was a huge influence on me as a kid. It looked like a really fun job. -- Mike Scully
There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route. -- Terry Gilliam
Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. -- Anne Frank
I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together. -- Eric Clapton
Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams. -- Bob Proctor
I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me. -- Michael Pitt
I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him. -- Georges St-Pierre
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime. -- Chuck Eddy
The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him. -- Matthew Sweet
The action heroes were very cool as a kid. You would compare yourself with them - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger. -- Sergei Polunin
I can pretty much say that because of Bruce Lee and Jean-Claude Van Damme, that's why I do what I do today. -- Scott Adkins
It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen. -- Gary Cherone
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had. -- David Lynch
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. -- Sammy Hagar
We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together. -- George C. Scott
Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you. -- Jim Sullivan
There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players. -- Lee Ann Womack
Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things. -- Eric Carr
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht! -- David Lee Roth
If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record. -- Gary Cherone
Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
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
I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill. -- Chuck Zito
I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job. -- Vincent Gallo
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van. -- Anthony Burgess
Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet. -- Eric Bristow
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
A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster. -- James Berardinelli
Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem. -- Patrick Demarchelier
Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad? -- Frank Gehry
More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections. -- Peter Hammill
You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation. -- John Green
I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well. -- David Hockney
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value. -- Jerry Saltz
My brother Van got the computer first and showed me what it was like to edit video. I definitely credit Van with turning me onto filmmaking. -- Casey Neistat
Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability. -- Douglas Wood
Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer. -- Eric Idle
My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods-except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never locked the front door. -- Jessica Biel
Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations. -- John Green
Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex. -- Anne Frank
I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me. -- Sammy Hagar
Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it's like to be dying, and (b) not have died. -- John Green
The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten -- John Green

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