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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. -- David Lee Roth
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If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call. -- David Lee Roth
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Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt'. I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt. -- David Lee Roth
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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
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Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing -- David Lee Roth
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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.' -- David Lee Roth
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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. -- David Lee Roth
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You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound. -- David Lee Roth
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The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism. -- David Lee Roth
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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
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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
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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? -- David Lee Roth
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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. -- David Lee Roth
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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. -- David Lee Roth
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It's not rocket surgery! -- David Lee Roth
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Nobody's going to get a hot dog at my concert! -- David Lee Roth
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I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. -- David Lee Roth
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Reach up to the feet of God, looking for a sign ... it was right here all the time ... -- David Lee Roth
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Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth. -- David Lee Roth
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The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot. -- David Lee Roth
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The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. -- David Lee Roth
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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
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Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent. -- David Lee Roth
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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. -- David Lee Roth
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I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all. -- David Lee Roth
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I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. -- David Lee Roth
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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. -- David Lee Roth
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They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar. -- David Lee Roth
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An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance -- David Lee Roth
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Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog. -- David Lee Roth
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I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free! -- David Lee Roth
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The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. -- David Lee Roth
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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. -- David Lee Roth
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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. -- David Lee Roth
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Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it. -- David Lee Roth
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I've always been very self-motivated. -- David Lee Roth
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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! -- David Lee Roth
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I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year. -- David Lee Roth
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Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it. -- David Lee Roth
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I don't feel tardy. -- David Lee Roth
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Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello -- David Lee Roth
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Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. -- David Lee Roth
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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. -- David Lee Roth
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Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to sail right up along side it. -- David Lee Roth
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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
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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
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I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money. -- David Lee Roth
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The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition! -- David Lee Roth
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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
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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. -- David Lee Roth
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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. -- David Lee Roth
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I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else. -- David Lee Roth
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Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage -- David Lee Roth
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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
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This must be just like livin' in paradise. -- David Lee Roth
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Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do -- David Lee Roth
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A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds. -- David Lee Roth
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You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems. -- David Lee Roth
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I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself. -- David Lee Roth
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You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real. -- David Lee Roth
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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. -- David Lee Roth
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I don't get all the women that I want ... I get all the women that want me. -- David Lee Roth
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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
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If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records. -- David Lee Roth
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When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's. -- David Lee Roth
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The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!! -- David Lee Roth
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Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything ... to go! -- David Lee Roth
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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
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I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business. -- David Lee Roth
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I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults. -- David Lee Roth
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Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager. -- David Lee Roth
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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants. -- David Lee Roth
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When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it. -- David Lee Roth
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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
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It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different! -- David Lee Roth
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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
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I grew up on radio, not TV. -- David Lee Roth
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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. -- David Lee Roth
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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
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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. -- David Lee Roth
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Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive -- David Lee Roth
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I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success -- David Lee Roth
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He who knows how will always work for he who knows why. -- David Lee Roth
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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. -- David Lee Roth
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Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello. -- David Lee Roth
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It dont matter WHAT your doin, ust as long as you LOOK GOOD doin it -- David Lee Roth
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Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely. -- David Lee Roth
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Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade. -- David Lee Roth
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I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year. -- David Lee Roth
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The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo. -- David Lee Roth