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I could see the tension between Sam and Dave. Sammy had a career before Hagar and people hated him out of their loyalty to Dave.
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When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.
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I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.
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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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Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a rock guitarists time is spent playing rhythm, it's important to learn to do it well .. learning lead should come after you can play solid backup and have the sound of the chords in your head...
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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 believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself.
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Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
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When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
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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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Me and Eddie really hit it off as songwriters and also as just people. It lasted three years. I don't regret one moment. They were great to me.
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I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.
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We brought out the old catalog and the majority of the Van Halen fans did appreciate it, but in the end, they wanted their Dave.
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The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
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I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
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When I woke up from that dream, brother, I was like, "Okay, I've got to know what that was, what happened." That was not an average dream. I've had some dreams in my days, but not like that. It was way too vivid. Looking back, the reason that dream makes more sense today than it did then is, we are in a digital world. Back then, it was an analog world. Everything was digital in the dream.
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I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.
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Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive...
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Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out.
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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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I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.