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?

David Lee Roth Van Halen

• Rock Star

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• The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • Building
  • Down

• I'm very passionate.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Very
  • Passionate

• Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

  

  Bernard Law Montgomery
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Discipline

• 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.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Life
  • Education

• I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

  

  Jodie Foster

• There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

  

  Lucio Tan
  • Time
  • Wise

• 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.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Happy
  • Night
  • Independent

• The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Allegra Huston
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  John Coltrane
  • Time
  • Real
  • Listening

• 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.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Time
  • Money
  • War

• 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.

  

  Doris Day
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Up
  • Music
  • Trying

• Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Stress
  • Circumstances
  • Reactions

• Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • World
  • Trust
  • Hardest

• 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.

  

  April Winchell
  • Time
  • Why
  • Chocolate

• 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.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Song
  • Die

• 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.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Firsts
  • Albums

• 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.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Wife
  • Artist
  • Changes

• If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Cook
  • Housewife

• As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Trying
  • Beauty
  • Flower

• I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Star

• If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Energy
  • Hate
  • Creatures

• 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?

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Rock Star