David Lee Roth Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.”
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“I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.”
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“We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.”
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“Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.”
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“People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.”
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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.”
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“I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.”
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“In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits. There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.”
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“The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!”
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“Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.”
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“Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.”
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“He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.”
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“I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.”
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“I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.”
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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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“Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello”
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“I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.”
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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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“I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.”
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“For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!”
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“When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.”
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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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“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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“If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?”
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“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?”
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“Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.”
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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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“There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.”
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“Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.”
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