David Lee Roth quotes %% "I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money." -- David Lee Roth %% "I used to jog but the ice-cubes kept falling out of my glass." -- David Lee Roth %% "We're having a party in your town and YOU'RE invited!" -- David Lee Roth %% "Here today, gone later today" - about one-hit-wonder glam bands I think. -- David Lee Roth %% "Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it" -- David Lee Roth probably a mis-quote %% "I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else." -- David Lee Roth, "Top rockers of the 80's" %% "The beauty of rock and roll is that there are no rules and no schools. You just make it up as you go." -- David Lee Roth, "Top rockers of the 80's" %% "Audience participation should extend from onstage to backstage to under the stage" -- David Lee Roth, "Top rockers of the 80's" %% "We're gonna party with 10000 of our closest friends.." -- David Lee Roth %% "I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year." -- David Lee Roth %% "The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!" -- David Lee Roth %% "Oh my God! This is David Lee Roth of Van Halen Live! in front of your steaming eyes" -- David Lee Roth %% "Always had it, always WILL have it!" -- David Lee Roth %% "Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing" -- David Lee Roth %% "Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do" -- David Lee Roth %% "Hey don't be squirtin' water at me... I'm gonna fuck your girlfriend, pal!" -- David Lee Roth %% "There's no pot of gold for us [Van Halen] at the the end of the rainbow, we're just here to ride the rainbow" -- David Lee Roth %% "Happiness is a bathing suit" -- David Lee Roth %% "I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success" -- David Lee Roth %% "We wouldn't lie to ya! We just met ya! Lyin's for LATER in the relationship..." -- David Lee Roth %% "People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!" -- David Lee Roth %% "The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot" -- David Lee Roth %% "I've been going steady with my girlfriend for maybe two, maybe three... days!" -- David Lee Roth %% "If you can't do it in a white T-Shirt a pair of jeans under one white lightbulb, you can't do it!" -- David Lee Roth about live performance, Headbangers Ball MTV Europe. %% "I am not this way the way I am, 'coz I am in a band. I am in a band, 'coz I am this way" -- David Lee Roth, Off the Record %% "Nobody's going to get a hot dog at my concert!" -- David Lee Roth, Off the Record %% "It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!" -- David Lee Roth, Off the Record %% "A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds." -- David Lee Roth, Off the Record %% "People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them 12 feet. From the audience to the stage!" -- David Lee Roth, Off the Record (and memory) %% "We've been together maybe ten years, straight out of high school and stuff. I'd say that in the whole ten years we've been together, we've put in ... oh .. a good seven or eight hours of rehearsal." -- David Lee Roth, "Eddie van Halen" by Dan Hedges %% "He who knows how will always work for he who knows why." -- David Lee Roth %% "With a little budget and some creativity, you can sell a toothbrush to a camel. With a bigger budget and some more creativity, you can sell him two toothbrushes. With an even bigger budget and a *lot* of creativity, you can not only sell him a dozen toothbrushes, but he will walk away wondering how he ever got along without them... and he'll jump on the mailing list." -- David Lee Roth, quoted from memory %% Dreams: "Trouble with dreams is, a lot of them do come true. By the time they do, you've turned into somebody else. That's what happens with time... It's always been important to me, that my dream come true, when I wanted. We turned our dream into reality by not even really pursueing either one. We didn't pursue the dream and we certainly didn't pursue reality!" -- David Lee Roth, Off the Record %% Imitators: "If you imagine a hundred people running down the street in a road race and one of 'em is in front; ninetynine are in back. Ninetynine in back go: 'How come Ray is in front of the pack all the time ?' He is wearing red shorts... Cut to the next race: You see ninetynine people in red shorts. Ray is still in front. They go... 'It must be... the shoes!'" -- David Lee Roth speaking about VH copying groups, Headbangers Ball MTV Europe %% Inhibitions: "Inhibitions are like vices. And you work your way thru them. We worked our way thru all the possible vices that one could get involved in, as the band started. There are hundreds of them and they were all detrimental to us. And now I have the four or five that I like the best and I just do those all the time. As you work your way thru these vices, you lose your inhibitions." -- David Lee Roth, Off the Record %% Life: "There's a spark, some kind of energy. Energy is what it's all about. When you celebrate something, you're making energy. When you have a thought, your making energy. When you make love, your having energy. When you give birth, it's energy. And the sad things in life are loss of energy. Somebody dies, something dies, lack of it, no energy. Something stops, your car grinds to a halt, and you gotta just leave it there by the side of the Santa Monica Freeway, it's loss of energy. And it takes different buttons to hit that spark in each person. And some people need a hockey game, and some people need a political rally, and the rest of us need Van Halen!" -- David Lee Roth, Off the Record %% Life II: "Life is not a popularity contest. Do not expect to see Valentino in the mirror." -- David Lee Roth, Off the Record %% MTV: "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." -- David Lee Roth, Late Night with David Letterman (a TV show) %% New Years Resolution: "Doggie dog world that it is, I think now it's a good time on New Years, to decide whether you're gonna be a hot dog or a little weeny. And I have chosen to remain a little wiener for one more season." -- David Lee Roth, Late Night with David Letterman (a TV show) %% Rock'n'Roll I: "Somebody asks me, `Dave, what;s it mean when you say somebody's rocking or somebody's not rocking' I say, `I'll illustrate: a guy with black socks, black shoes, blue and white bermuda shorts, hawaiian luau shirt, a Nikon and a jackknife around his neck, zinc oxide on his nose, a pair of sunglasses, a fishing hat with all the badges on it, and he's staring up the tall buildings - that's rock & roll.' Now, the freedom to do that is very serious, but the picture is a crackup." -- David Lee Roth, "Eddie van Halen" by Dan Hedges %% Rock'n'Roll II: "There's a little Van Halen in all of us, and we're just trying to bring it out. It's like something bursts inside of you, something that makes you not care what people around you are thinking. It makes you invincible, like if a car hit you, nothing would happen to you. It should make you feel like the Charge of the Light Brigade, even if you're just going to the bathroom. When you do that on a mass level, it becomes hysterical, not political. It expands to a large group of people not caring about conventions, just getting in the thrill of being themselves. That experience is about the audience, not us. All we do is provide the soundtrack. Van Halen's got nothing to hide. What you've walked into is a self-created fantasyland where everything happens four times as quick. Anything you desire you can find here, whatever your vice. Whatever, somebody else can't do in his 9-5 job, I can do in rock'n'roll." -- David Lee Roth, "Top rockers of the 80's" %% Rock'n'Roll III: "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. Van Halen likes to keep things simple. All we're doing is giving our daily lives melodies, beats and titles. What we sing about is what we live. It's the glamour, the tinsel, the non-stop, late-night, endless party that is the crest of the biggest wave with spray in your face. It's the laugh in the face of death blown out of proportion, mutated reality that is the wonderful, wacky, crazy, cutup, cutey worlds of rock'n'roll." -- David Lee Roth, "Top rockers of the 80's" %% Rock'n'Roll V: "What are the characteristics of a good rock'n'roller ? Rock'n'roll is in you. You either got it or you don't. You can't fake it. It has to be inside you just itching to get out. And when it does, POW! It's like a dam bursting. That's Van Halen." -- David Lee Roth, "Top rockers of the 80's" %% "Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it.." -- David Lee Roth, to a girl in the audience %% "The girls in Sweden are fantastic. Last night when I went to bed in my hotel room, there was this girl banging on my hotel room door. She screamed and begged me to open the door. I shouted to her, that she should stop, but she continued. In the end I had to get up and let her out" -- David Lee Roth %% "Hey, your girlfriend was partying with us backstage before the show. She had a message for you: mmfp mmf uff fmfff mnm." - DLR was apparently pissed at some guy in the audience, and he had the house lights on and was telling security to throw him out. -- David Lee Roth %% "I FORGOT THE FUCKING WORDS!!!!" - US Festival, 1983 -- David Lee Roth %% "I'm gonna stand up for rock and roll tonite, baby... In fact, by the time we hit the stage, I'll be lucky to just stand up! Hey-Hey!!!" -DLR in an interview before the 1983 U.S. Festival -- David Lee Roth %% Roth cites Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great and Ivan the Terrible as influences. -- David Lee Roth, "Top rockers of the 80's" %% -- David Lee Roth %% -- David Lee Roth %% %