David Lee Roth's Quotes
Born: 1954-10-10
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of David Lee Roth
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.
Tags: Become, Show, UntilYa 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.
Tags: Else, Greatest, HimMaybe 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.
Tags: Door, Real, StudyIt'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.
Tags: Action, Else, HereYou 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.
Tags: Attention, Rock, SometimesI don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.
Tags: WomenPeople ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
Tags: Ask, Far, TellThe light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
Tags: End, Front, LightYou 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.
Tags: Famous, Feeling, MusicMoney can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
Tags: Enough, Happiness, MoneyMusic is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
Tags: Astonished, Choices, MusicVan Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.
Tags: Keep, Providing, RainI take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.
Tags: Business, Love, Real