“People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.”
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Famous David Lee Roth Quotes
“Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.”
“The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.”
“Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.”
“The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.”
Source: Van Halen: A Visual History: 1978 - 1984
“Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.”
“I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.”
“I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.”
“I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.”
“It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.”
“Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage”
“I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.”
“The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!”
“The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!”
“Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do”
“I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success”
“Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello”
“I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.”
“You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.”
“I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.”
“If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.”
“Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.”