David Lee Roth Quotes
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People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
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A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.
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You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
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I've always been very self-motivated.
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Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive...
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Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.
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Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
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The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
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I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.
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The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!
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I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
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I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.
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The best time is during the struggle. The top of the mountain is usually small, freezing and lonesome. To this day I'm continually reinvesting myself in something new. I'm not afraid to start as a beginner in anything.
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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
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In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.
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The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
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Well a good writer writes, a good musician listens to a lot more than he actually composes, and if you're going to do lyrics - well, there's a Freudian slip. That's not even a slip, that's a Freudian move: I said going to do lyrics. If you really want it to ring true, you'll live it first. Go really get your heart broken!
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I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50...
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If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
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On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.
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A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
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I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.
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I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.