I grew up on radio, not TV. David Lee Roth More Quotes by David Lee Roth More Quotes From David Lee Roth 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 wowsomewhere-elsepeople The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. David Lee Roth tunnelshumorfunny 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. David Lee Roth cowboycarespace Ya know, 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 mcdonaldsvisionmen 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 demonspiritfall 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 rockslandattention 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 songfunboys I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else. David Lee Roth breathefour The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. David Lee Roth quittingknowingself 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 sailingdarknesspeople Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out. David Lee Roth burningkitchenworld 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. David Lee Roth glassesanimalart Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello. David Lee Roth critics A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds. David Lee Roth rocksbandmind 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 believepeopleideas 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 partyreallooks 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? David Lee Roth detailsrocksstars I am a one-trick pony. If you tell most people to draw a picture of a tree, they'd draw 35 branches and 10,000 leaves. I will draw you a tree with four branches and three leaves, and I'll spend the rest of the week drawing inside of each leaf. In terms of the grand gesture, I reserve that maximum turbo blast energy for what I do as an artist, and I sing and dance for dinner. David Lee Roth artisttreepeople Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. David Lee Roth bongosbeardrap Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage David Lee Roth participationstageshould
