David Lee Roth Quotes
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There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.
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Nobody's going to get a hot dog at my concert!
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Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello...
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Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!
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Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.
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The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on.
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When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.
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Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.
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Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.
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Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
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We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.
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Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage...
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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
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If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call.
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I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.
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Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.
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Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt'. I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.
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I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!
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The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
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I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
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When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it.
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I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.
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In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.
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They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.