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GIVE US VAN HALEN
“You do it one of two ways: either spectacle or personality.”
April 2, 1987
“You do it one of two ways: either spectacle or personality.”
“If you have spectacle, that’s great— that’s like the circus, a spectacle. But you’ve got to change that spectacle every year, people get bored quick. This is the ’80s. I grew up on a heavy diet of television, as a kid and as a big kid. And it’s like there’s no dead space on television or radio, everything turns real quick. Every 10 minutes you’ve gotta have a commercial. And that's how we write our songs, and that's how we live our lives.”