David Lee Roth Quotes

• What make’s me happiest in life? I sell smiles for a living. Here, have one free. It looks good on you. That’s what makes me happy.

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

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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.

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• I’ve always been very self-motivated.

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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.

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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.

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• Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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• Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

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

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

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• Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

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• It doesn’t get better, it doesn’t get worse, but it sure gets different!

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• I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

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Birth:	10th October, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Singer

About

David Lee Roth was born in Bloomington, Indiana. He is an American singer. In 2007, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Roth is best known as the original and current lead singer of the Pasadena, California-based hard rock band Van Halen. He is also known as a successful solo artist, releasing numerous RIAA-certified Gold and Platinum records. In 2012, Roth and Van Halen released the critically successful comeback album, A Different Kind of Truth.

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