“You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.” IfsWellsDifferentPlayShowsFormStarsAcceptingRocksCreatingDrawsStonesBotherRock N RollUnfortunateRollingFertileRolling StonesHybridZeppelinsDiscsFertile Ground Author:David Lee Roth
“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!” IfsWantWritingFirstsWellsHeartSaidMovingBrokenMusicianRingsSlipsGood WritersTrue YouHeart Broke Author:David Lee Roth
“I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsAbleFacesPartyKingsDrinkFinishedBottles Author:David Lee Roth
“If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call.” IfsWantGivingGuyGive MeBottlesSplits Author:David Lee Roth
“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.” IfsKindMatterCareSpiritSpaceDon't CarePopsI Don't CareHatsCowboyOuter SpaceCowboy Hat Author:David Lee Roth
“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.” IfsCountryStatesLeftUnitedCitiesUnited StatesStreetsNew YorkWingsWesternHatsNeighborhoodNew York CityCowboyLeft WingBohemianCowboy HatCountry Western Author:David Lee Roth
“Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do” IfsPlayCareers Author:David Lee Roth
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantLooksArtBodyMightWaterAnimalStageArt IsGlassesHeatVolumeFacilityBasementsGutters Author:David Lee Roth
“Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?” IfsNeedsStarsRocksDetailsRock Star Author:David Lee Roth
“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?” IfsKindArtArtistLeftGlassesTeaExcessGreat ArtDrankGreat ArtistIced Tea Author:David Lee Roth
“If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.” IfsRecordsAlbumsCollectionsVansVan Halen Author:David Lee Roth
