"David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - 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."

-- Eddie Van Halen

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“The trouble with having a wired jaw is that you can never tell when you're sleepy. You can't yawn.”
“All true success flows out of giving something to someone.”
“The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.”
“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
“The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.”
“Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like.”

Source : Lester C. Thurow (1984). “Dangerous currents: the state of economics”, Vintage
“May all beings everywhere with whom we are inseparably connected, be fulfilled, awakened, liberated and free. May there be peace in this world and throughout the entire universe, and may we all together complete the spiritual journey.”
“I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.”

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