Sammy Hagar Quotes
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Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth. Donn convinced them to change it to the last name of the guitar player and drummer.
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Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.
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I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich and famous. I've got to figure out where I want to go and just get this thing aimed. I wrote this song ["Right Now"] and I kept singing it every day .
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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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It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.
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You just went up and started playing, the audience got into it, and it was just a great high experience. That's what I kind of invented with "Mas Tequila" in Cabo.
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The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.
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And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just sent a bad message to a troubled generation.
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Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
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Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog.
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I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.
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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 just have a vision of something, and it seems to go a long way. One thought goes a long way.
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While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.
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After I had my dream, I got into numerology. Like my buddy's name is Bill, and I would say, "B is a two, and each I is a nine, and the L's are fours. And that's eight." I would figure out everybody's numerological single-digit number.
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Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.
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When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now.
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I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.
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I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.
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The downloads, the licensing, commercials, radio - it's made me more money than any song I've ever written, and it only went to No. 26. It wasn't a big hit at all. But it's a career song ["I Can't Drive 55"].
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"Rock Candy" was my first record. I had never been in a studio, so I was in shock and I had no idea if it was great or if it stunk. I was just putting in my heart and soul, and closing my eyes and keeping my fingers crossed. I gave it everything.
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I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.
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I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."
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I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.