A biography for David Lee Rothhasn’t been written yet.
“Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've always been very self-motivated.”
“People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.”
“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.”
“He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.”
“I grew up on radio, not TV.”
“The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.”
“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.”
“Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.”
“I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.”