David Lee Roth Quotes
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When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.
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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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The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
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The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on.
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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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I grew up on radio, not TV.
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Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive
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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 doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.
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You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.
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Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.
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The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
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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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If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
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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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I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
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Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.
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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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You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
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It dont matter WHAT your doin, ust as long as you LOOK GOOD doin it
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I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success
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My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
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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 only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!
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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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I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods.
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Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.
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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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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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