David Lee Roth Quotes

Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out.

If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.

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

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

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.

You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.

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.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

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.'

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.

What's missing is the testosterone. What's missing is the fury. What's missing is the passionate convicted commitment. And I got a lot of mine from my religious background. So y'all best stop imagining the way Dr. Zorba looked, or some defenseless Hasidic Jew with a little yarmulke on his head, 'cause that ain't here for you.

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

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.

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

The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to sail right up along side it.

Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive

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?

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.

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.

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.

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.

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.

When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.

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.

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.

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

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

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!

I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.

Reach up to the feet of God, looking for a sign ... it was right here all the time ...

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.

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

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.

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.

When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made 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!

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!

I grew up on radio, not TV.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

This must be just like livin' in paradise.

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.

It's not rocket surgery!

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.

I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.

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.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

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.

Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

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

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

I don't feel tardy.

It dont matter WHAT your doin, ust as long as you LOOK GOOD doin it