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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
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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!
David Lee Roth Van Halen
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You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.
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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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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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Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.
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I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
David Lee Roth Van Halen
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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've always been very self-motivated.
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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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Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
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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!
David Lee Roth Van Halen
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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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I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
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An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance...
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The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
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The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
David Lee Roth Van Halen
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A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
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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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I'm a natural behind the camera... My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here... When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there.
David Lee Roth Van Halen