David Lee Roth Best Quotes & Sayings

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

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. — David Lee Roth

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

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

Reach up to the feet of God, looking for a sign ... it was right here all the time ... — David Lee Roth

I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly. — David Lee Roth

I don't get all the women that I want ... I get all the women that want me. — David Lee Roth

It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again. — David Lee Roth

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

Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager. — David Lee Roth

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. — David Lee Roth

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

What's missing is the testosterone. What's missing is the fury. What's missing is the passionate convicted commitment. And I got a lot of mine from my religious background. So y'all best stop imagining the way Dr. Zorba looked, or some defenseless Hasidic Jew with a little yarmulke on his head, 'cause that ain't here for you. — David Lee Roth

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds. — David Lee Roth

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello. — David Lee Roth

Can writing ever be taught? The best answer to that was given obliquely by the rock musician David Lee Roth. When asked if money could buy happiness he said, no, but with money you could buy the big boat and go right up to where the people were happy. With a teacher you can go right up to where the writing is done; the leap is made alone with vision, subject, passion, and instinct. So a writer comes to the page with vision in her heart and craft in her hands and a sense of what a story might be in her head. How do the three come together? My thesis is the old one: they merge in the physical writing - inside the act of writing, not from the outside. The process is the teacher. — Ron Carlson

You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours. — David Lee Roth

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

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

The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen. — Alex Van Halen

The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition! — David Lee Roth

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

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants. — David Lee Roth

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

I don't feel tardy. — 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

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults. — 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

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

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

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

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

When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it. — David Lee Roth

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success — David Lee Roth

The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo. — 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. — David Lee Roth