David Lee Roth Quotes
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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 can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.
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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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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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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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Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.
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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 most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
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I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
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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 problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
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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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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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A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
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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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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'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.
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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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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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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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I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.