Sammy Hagar Quotes
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I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.
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Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.
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I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.
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I was really wanting to be a rock star. I was saying, "I am going to have a fancy car, I got to have fancy clothes, and I have got to play the whole role." Obviously, I meant business.
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I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
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I would like to enlighten people.
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I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.
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When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.
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In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
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When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.
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If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.
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That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.
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Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.
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You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.
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"Love Walks In," it was the same thing. That song is about aliens, by the way.
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I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
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I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.
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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.
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Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.
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I don't want to try to force anything, because I'm really happy with Chickenfoot; my new record with them is phenomenal.
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I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.
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The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.