Top 100 David Lee Quotes
#1. In true rock star fashiuon, I had insomina last night and I didn't sleep at all. So all I need is a bottle of Jack Daniels and some groupies, and I'll be just like David Lee Roth.
Chris Jericho
#2. 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.
David Lee Roth
#3. I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.
Sammy Hagar
#4. My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.
Dave Mustaine
#5. The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
Alex Van Halen
#6. Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.
Chris Cornell
#7. David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
Eddie Van Halen
#8. A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.
Conan O'Brien
#9. Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts
Eddie Van Halen
#10. The president's stump speeches could carry the forced air of a Van Halen reunion tour with Sammy Hagar in for David Lee Roth.
Mark Leibovich
#11. Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage
David Lee Roth
#12. Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).
David Hewson
#13. But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.
David Dinkins
#14. I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.
David Lee Roth
#15. They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.
David Lee Roth
#16. 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.
David Lee Roth
#17. 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.
David Lee Roth
#19. It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.
David Lee Roth
#20. There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, 'You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.'
David Lee Roth
#21. On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.
David Lee Roth
#22. 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.
David Lee Roth
#23. The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on.
David Lee Roth
#25. I threw about 16 punches in 3 seconds. It was some Bruce Lee speed!
David Haye
#26. You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
David Lee Roth
#28. In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits. There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.
David Lee Roth
#29. Man determines to dictate your turn, but God determines your time. It was Saul's turn, but it was David's time. Don't wait for your turn, wait for your time.
Lee M. Sapp
#30. It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.
David Lee Roth
#31. I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.
David Lee Roth
#32. Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive
David Lee Roth
#33. Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.
David Lee Roth
#34. You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
David Lee Roth
#35. Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
David Lee Roth
#36. I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.
David Lee Roth
#37. When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it.
David Lee Roth
#38. The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
David Lee Roth
#39. My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.
David Lee
#40. 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.
David Lee Roth
#41. I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.
David Lee Roth
#42. There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.
David Lee
#43. [Hilary] ... after you left, I didn't understand what had happened. David, I don't hate you and I don't blame you. I don't think you were happy, and I wasn't that happy either. We were just coasting, seeing what would happen, and then you pulled the plug. Right?
Janice Y.K. Lee
#44. Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt'. I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.
David Lee Roth
#45. Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.
David Lee Roth
#46. The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.
David Lee
#47. The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.
David Lee
#48. You have Kim Jong Il, and you have his brother, Menta Lee Il.
David Letterman
#49. I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
David Lee Roth
#50. The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!
David Lee Roth
#51. The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!
David Lee Roth
#52. I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.
David Lee Roth
#53. Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.
David Lee
#54. Song-Mi Lee, ... her life wholly dedicated to protecting the great man against the importunities of the academic world and soothing his despair at no longer being able to achieve an erection or an original thought.
David Lodge
#55. Harper Lee was my David Bowie, and I feel her loss in my bones.
Margaret Stohl
#56. 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?
David Lee Roth
#57. more. Lee had done this so many times that he could have closed his eyes and his fingers would carry on, manipulating his tools of felony with enviable precision. Lee had already
David Baldacci
#58. Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray, it's impossible to imagine anyone else in that role. I mean, he's just so great. Over the course of the five movies, he always just takes it so seriously, doesn't condescend to the material, whatsoever and just treats it as if he was playing Hamlet.
David Kirschner
#59. I think Hillary Clinton has a lot of lee way to go, either direction, and to probably most likely try to fudge it and get both parts of the party into talking points.
David Corn
#60. People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
David Lee Roth
#61. I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.
David Lee Roth
#62. We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.
David Lee Roth
#63. There's something I want to say in this space, but it's an emptiness where there's usually a hug. - Colin Morton to Mary Lee Bragg, 1972
David Eso
#64. I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.
David Lee Roth
#65. It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!
David Lee Roth
#66. The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
David Lee Roth
#67. The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
David Lee Roth
#68. A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.
David Lee Roth
#69. Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to sail right up along side it.
David Lee Roth
#71. I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
David Lee Roth
#72. Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
David Lee Roth
#73. Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch)
David Cronenberg
#74. The success of the '86 movie with Brandon Lee demanded some kind of continuation. Plus, I had always contemplated a modern version.
David Carradine
#75. Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything ... to go!
David Lee Roth
#76. 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
#77. Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.
David Lee Roth
#78. I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods.
David Lee Roth
#79. For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!
David Lee Roth
#80. Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do
David Lee Roth
#81. I'm a natural behind the camera. My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here. When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there.
David Lee Roth
#83. 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
#84. Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.
David Lee Roth
#85. Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello
David Lee Roth
#86. There are things we could do like let Brad Dourif play Charles Lee Ray's brother or father , something like that, but I think any of those options would've been squarely in the horror-comedy realm.
David Kirschner
#87. Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
David Lee Roth
#88. Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
David Lee Roth
#89. Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing
David Lee Roth
#90. I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.
David Lee Roth
#91. I would love to have played with David Silva.
Francis Lee
#92. You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
David Lee Roth
#93. I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
David Lee Roth
#94. Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it..
David Lee
#95. A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
David Lee Roth
#96. I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself.
David Lee Roth
#97. 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.
David Lee Roth
#98. Tony Swan, Jorge Sanchez, Calvin Franz, Frances Neagley, Stanley Lowrey, Manuel Orozco, David O'Donnell, and Karla Dixon.
Lee Child
#99. That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know?
David Lee
#100. 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.
David Lee Roth
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
