Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by David Lee Roth
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.
People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.
The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
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.
I grew up on radio, not TV.
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.
He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.
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.
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.
Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.
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.
I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
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.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.
The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
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.
I've always been very self-motivated.
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.
Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
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.'
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
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.
A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!
It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.
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.
My visions and fantasies are pretty standard. The only difference is I got to do it, while most of us haven't. Beyond that, I'm a pretty standard guy. Give me a gal with a sense of humor, acidic wit, who's read a few books and has a body like a Swedish speed skater, and I'm quite content.
I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success
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.
When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it.
If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!
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!
I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.
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?
Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.
Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive
Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello
You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
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.
The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!
When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.
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.
It dont matter WHAT your doin, ust as long as you LOOK GOOD doin it
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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