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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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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Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.
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When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.
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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
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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 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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Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.
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Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive...
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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
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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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I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
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The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
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Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
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A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
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I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
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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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It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.
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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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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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An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance...
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I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.
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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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The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.