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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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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.
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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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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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The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
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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 used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
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I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
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Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.
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Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage
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You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.
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I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.
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I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
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