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David Lee Roth

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David Lee Roth
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 10
Guitarist
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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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When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it.
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The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
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You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
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I'm a family oriented guy I've personally started four or five this year.
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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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I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success
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When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.
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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
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Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!
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Nobody's going to get a hot dog at my concert!
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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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Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
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Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage
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