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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
David Lee Roth
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David Lee Roth
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 10
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Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!
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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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Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing
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When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.
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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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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!
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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
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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?
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I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.
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If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
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He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
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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.
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