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Quotes by Sammy Hagar
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Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.
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.
If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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.
I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.
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.
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.
I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.
If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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.
I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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.
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
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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