David Lee Roth Quotes

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

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

It dont matter WHAT your doin, ust as long as you LOOK GOOD doin it ~ David Lee Roth

Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive ~ David Lee Roth

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real. ~ David Lee Roth

When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's. ~ David Lee Roth

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

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

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. ~ David Lee Roth

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds. ~ David Lee Roth

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

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely. ~ David Lee Roth

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge. ~ Sammy Hagar

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music. ~ Eddie Van Halen

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

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. ~ David Lee Roth

I don't feel tardy. ~ David Lee Roth

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

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. ~ David Lee Roth

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

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

Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage. ~ Chris Cornell

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. ~ David Lee Roth

I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year. ~ David Lee Roth

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

I grew up on radio, not TV. ~ David Lee Roth

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. ~ David Lee Roth

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

This must be just like livin' in paradise. ~ David Lee Roth

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

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

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

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

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

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot. ~ David Lee Roth

The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition! ~ David Lee Roth

Can writing ever be taught? The best answer to that was given obliquely by the rock musician David Lee Roth. When asked if money could buy happiness he said, no, but with money you could buy the big boat and go right up to where the people were happy. With a teacher you can go right up to where the writing is done; the leap is made alone with vision, subject, passion, and instinct. So a writer comes to the page with vision in her heart and craft in her hands and a sense of what a story might be in her head. How do the three come together? My thesis is the old one: they merge in the physical writing - inside the act of writing, not from the outside. The process is the teacher. ~ Ron Carlson

Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello ~ David Lee Roth

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

Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts ~ Eddie Van Halen

I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else. ~ David Lee Roth

Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade. ~ David Lee Roth

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

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

When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it. ~ David Lee Roth

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

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

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

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money. ~ David Lee Roth

It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again. ~ David Lee Roth

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

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

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

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

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

Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager. ~ David Lee Roth

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie. ~ Dave Mustaine

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello. ~ David Lee Roth

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance ~ David Lee Roth

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

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

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

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

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

It's not rocket surgery! ~ David Lee Roth

We go in and sit on the sofa by the fire to dry out, and she plays her favourite records, lots of Rickie Lee Jones and Led Zeppelin and Donovan and Bob Dylan - even though she was sixteen in 1982, there's definitely something very 1971 about Alice. I watch as she jumps around the room to 'Crosstown Traffic' by Jimi Hendrix, then when she's out of breath and tired of changing records every three minutes she puts a crackly old Ella Fitzgerald LP on, and we lie on the sofa and read our books, and steal glances at each other every now and then, like that bit between Michael York and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, and talk only when we feel like it. ~ David Nicholls

Katie James kept waking up. It was nothing unusual; it was just how she was. A noise here, an internal thought there, a nightmare that seemed so real she could touch it, kept hammering away. She finally rose, got some water and settled in an armchair, flicked on a reading light, and picked up the latest Lee Child thriller. ~ David Baldacci

Tony Swan, Jorge Sanchez, Calvin Franz, Frances Neagley, Stanley Lowrey, Manuel Orozco, David O'Donnell, and Karla Dixon. ~ Lee Child

The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world. ~ David Lee

They did offer me a chance of being a V in the crowd, but it's not my scene. I think they just thought it would be fun for me to do that, but I don't know. I heard that Stan Lee appears in every movie of his. ~ David Lloyd

Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it.. ~ David Lee

You have Kim Jong Il, and you have his brother, Menta Lee Il. ~ David Letterman

[Hilary] ... after you left, I didn't understand what had happened. David, I don't hate you and I don't blame you. I don't think you were happy, and I wasn't that happy either. We were just coasting, seeing what would happen, and then you pulled the plug. Right? ~ Janice Y.K. Lee

That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know? ~ David Lee

Under dictatorship, people are enslaved but they know it," he told de Mohrenschildt, recalling his days in the Soviet Union. "Here, the politicians constantly lie to people and they become immune to these lies because they have the privilege of voting. But voting is rigged and democracy here is a gigantic profusion of lies and clever brainwashing." Oswald worried about the FBI's police-state surveillance tactics. And he believed that America was turning more "militaristic" as it increasingly interfered in the internal affairs of other countries. ~ David Talbot

I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shots at JFK. I took that tour and met some conspiracy buffs, all of us standing at the gunman's window and looking down to the spot where the motorcade passed. It's right there below the window, an easy shot at a slow-moving car. No mystery, just a kid and a rifle and a tragedy. They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring. ~ David Wong

I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience. ~ David Lee

There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments. ~ David Lee

I had heard about Cheers, of course, but I never watched it. So I watched two episodes, and I was like, "Oh my God. This is really good." ~ David Lee

But it was not merely her choice to be a witness of the dirty work on Tier 1A. It was her role. As a woman she was not expected to wrestle prisoners into stress positions or otherwise overpower them, but rather just by her presence, to amplify their sense of powerlessness. She was there as an instrument of humiliation...The MPs knew very little about their prisoners or the culture they came from, and they understood less. But at Fort Lee, before they deployed, they were given a session of "cultural awareness training," from which they'd taken away the understanding - constantly reinforced by MI handlers - that Arab men were sexual prudes, with a particular hang-up about being seen naked in public, especially by women. What better way to break an Arab, then, than to strip him, tie him up, and have a "female bystander," as Graner describer Harman, laugh at him? American women were used on the MI block in the same way that Major David DiNenna spoke of dogs - as "force multipliers." Harman understood. She didn't like being naked in public herself. To the prisoners, being photographed may have seemed an added dash of mortification, but to Harman, taking pictures was a way of deflecting her own humiliation in the transaction - by taking ownership of her position as spectator. ~ Philip Gourevitch

Harper Lee was my David Bowie, and I feel her loss in my bones. ~ Margaret Stohl

If Flynn's as you say, the boy - Simon, you called him? - Simon should be all too happy to come away with us. I've no ill will toward him."
"You might remember Simon's the one who gave you a great clout on the head," she said.
David waved it away. "And why shouldn't he? He likely thought I was about to maul your unconscious person. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids. ~ David Lee

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"...because when it all comes down to it, there's no such thing as a two-hit wonder. So it's better just to have that one song that everyone knows, instead of diluting it with a follow-up that only half succeeds. I mean, who really cares what Soft Cell's next single was, as long as we have 'Tainted Love'?"
I stop. You're still listening.
"Wait," I say. "What was I talking about? How did we get to 'Tainted Love'?"
"Let's see," you say, "I believe we started roughly at the Democratic gains in the South, then jumped back to the election of 1948, dipping briefly into northern constructions of the South, vis-a-vis Steel Magnolias, Birth of a Nation, Johnny Cash, and Fried Green Tomatoes. Which landed you on To Kill a Mockingbird, and how it is both Southern and universal, which -- correct me if I'm wrong -- got us to Harper Lee and her lack of a follow-up novel, intersected with the theory, probably wrong, that Truman Capote wrote the novel, then hopping over to literary one-hit wonders, and using musical one-hit wonders to make a point about their special place in our culture. I think."
"Thank you," I say. "That's wonderful. ~ David Levithan

Matt Busby smiled again. And Matt Busby said, They have taken you to their hearts, Bill. To their very hearts.
Shankly! Shankly! Shankly! Shankly …
Aye, said Bill Shankly. They have, Matt. And I have taken them to mine. To my own heart, too…
Skankly! Shankly! Shankly …
But now they'll never let you go, Bill. You know that? Now they'll never let you leave, Bill. I hope you know that?
Shankly! Shankly …
Aye, Matt. I do know that. But I would never leave them, Matt. I would never go. Not now, Matt. Not now. Because I could never leave them, Matt. I could never let them go…
SHANK-LEE! ~ David Peace

Sammy Lee is another inbred player ~ David Pleat

The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there. ~ David Lee

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with. ~ David Lee

At night they emerge from the water, stalking over the grassy field, leaving bits of themselves on the ground. They gather at my bedside – Bum, Harold, David, the father I'd known before the war, and my neighbor Mr. Lang – and they gaze down on me, whispering revelations of who they were and who I am.
And the strongest voice belongs to the German, who looks upon me with concern and warmth, and he tells me, "If you can stand up, you'll live. ~ Lee Thomas

I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the time, I definitely wasn't thinking about television ~ David Lee

The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde. ~ David Fricke

Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies. ~ David Lee

Song-Mi Lee, ... her life wholly dedicated to protecting the great man against the importunities of the academic world and soothing his despair at no longer being able to achieve an erection or an original thought. ~ David Lodge

Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray, it's impossible to imagine anyone else in that role. I mean, he's just so great. Over the course of the five movies, he always just takes it so seriously, doesn't condescend to the material, whatsoever and just treats it as if he was playing Hamlet. ~ David Kirschner

If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramatic action that takes place. ~ David Dastmalchian

more. Lee had done this so many times that he could have closed his eyes and his fingers would carry on, manipulating his tools of felony with enviable precision. Lee had already ~ David Baldacci

I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks. ~ Sheryl Lee

The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility. ~ David Lee

Think of two parallel lines. [ ... ] One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third line. It comes out of dreams, visions, intuitions, prayers, out of the deepest levels of the self. It's not generated by cause and effect like the other two lines. It's a line that cuts across causality, cuts across time. It has no history that we can recognize or understand. But it forces a connection. It puts a man on the path of his destiny. - David Ferrie (339) ~ Don DeLillo

I would love to have played with David Silva. ~ Francis Lee