David Lee Roth Quotes - Page 2

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• The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

  David Lee Roth

  Funny, Humor, Tunnels

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• You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

  David Lee Roth

  Real

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• It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.

  David Lee Roth

  Sleep, Want, Want To Sleep

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• The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

  David Lee Roth

  Song, Rocks, Guitar

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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!

  David Lee Roth

  Heart, Years, Broken

  "Diamond Dave hits the airwaves". Jay Lustig, The Star-Ledger, January 1, 2006.

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• Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

  David Lee Roth

  Music, Girlfriend, Humorous

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• Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!

  David Lee Roth

  Giving, Bottles, Doughnut

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• Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello

  David Lee Roth

  Hate, Looks, Hate Me

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• Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Crowds, Territory

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• I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.

  David Lee Roth

  Years, Land, Teach

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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.

  David Lee Roth

  Occupation, Outrage, Threat

  "Van Halen invent hair metal" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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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.

  David Lee Roth

  Choices, Lasts, Alphabet

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 19, 2002.

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• People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

  David Lee Roth

  Feet, People, Twelve

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• You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's animal. People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in the gutter.

  David Lee Roth

  Art, Animal, Glasses

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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.

  David Lee Roth

  Real, Doors, Chinese

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• The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

  David Lee Roth

  World, Want, Stage

  Neil Zlozower, David Lee Roth (2007). “Van Halen: A Visual History: 1978 - 1984”, p.12, Chronicle Books

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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.

  David Lee Roth

  Men, Mcdonalds, Vision

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• Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Guitar, Pants

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• An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance

  David Lee Roth

  Pounds, Murphys Law, Performances

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• The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!

  David Lee Roth

  Baby, People, Tea

  "David Lee Roth: 'I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better'" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2012.

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• You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Land, Attention

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• I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.

  David Lee Roth

  Men, Years, Lasts

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• I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.

  David Lee Roth

  Kings, Party, Thinking

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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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  People, Darkness, Sailing

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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

  David Lee Roth

  Stories, Cry, Shows

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