David Lee Roth Quotes
Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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I'm very passionate.
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Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
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I became conscious in later life that I had been given an education that enabled me to do all kinds of jobs, but often, jobs weren't open to me.
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I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
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There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.
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I like living on my own. I'm happy for a man to come over. I'll cook for him; he can spend the night occasionally, but then I want him to leave. I'm too independent.
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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
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What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.
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I've been listening to jazzmen, especially saxophonists, since the time of the early Count Basie records, which featured Lester Young. Pres was my first real influence, but the first horn I got was an alto, not a tenor.
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I didn't argue that the war in Vietnam was immoral; it was merely stupid and a horrendous waste of time, money, and lives based on a flawed premise.
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I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.
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I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.
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Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.
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Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.
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Usually, jet lag is not this big of an issue for me. I'm not sure why I'm so disoriented this time. It could be due to the amount of chocolate and french fries I've eaten in the last two and a half weeks.
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I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
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Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.
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Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
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The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.
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I mean, the thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's completely shattered the illusion' really upsets me. It's such a big deal that people come give me their time.
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Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?
