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Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage
David Lee Roth
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David Lee Roth
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 10
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Bloomington
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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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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 change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.
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On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.
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You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.
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The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
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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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You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.
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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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