Sammy Hagar (Samuel Roy Hagar) Quotes

I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.

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• I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Help
  • Guy
  • Kurt Cobain