David Lee Roth

Musician

David Lee Roth is a rock vocalist known for his flamboyant style and as the frontman of Van Halen, shaping the sound of hard rock in the 1980s.

Born
January 10, 1954
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"It dont matter WHAT your doin, ust as long as you LOOK GOOD doin it"

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"People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage."

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"Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars."

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"Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make."

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"The best time is during the struggle. The top of the mountain is usually small, freezing and lonesome. To this day I'm continually reinvesting myself in something new. I'm not afraid to start as a beginner in anything."

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"Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos."

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"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."

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"I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me."

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"It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again."

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"Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants."

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"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."

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"I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year."

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"The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train."

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"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."

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"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."

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"The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!"

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"I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly."

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"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."

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