Sammy Hagar Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Thinking, Two, Choices

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.

  Sammy Hagar

  Choices, Fans, Records

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I'd love to be abducted. I'd sit on my deck at home waiting all night long to be abducted. But that's never happened that I know of.

  Sammy Hagar

  Home, Night, Long

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Trying, Records, Want

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Decision, Band, Management

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.

  Sammy Hagar

  Home, Men, Egypt

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into a trance, and she would just start typing information, and then she would come out of her trance and read it and go, "Wow," and that was just the way she wrote her books.

  Sammy Hagar

  Reading, Book, Information

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Dark, Men

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Suicide, Generations, Cobain

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on it. I signed off in a second. "You bet that anyone can use this. I don't care. You can use it for anything." If it is to inspire people in the positive sense.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, People, Inspire

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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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

  People, Guy, Wish

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• "Love Walks In," it was the same thing. That song is about aliens, by the way.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Way, Aliens

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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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"].

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Careers, Radio

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I've had my fill of "One Way To Rock" or "I Can't Drive 55." Those are guy songs to me, and I'm cool with that. But when you write a great love song and you start seeing that 50 percent of your audience is beautiful women, that's much more rewarding, than having a bunch of guys out there.

  Sammy Hagar

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Play, Like Love

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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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."

  Sammy Hagar

  Thinking, Ideas, Work Out

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I've always been into writing love songs.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Writing, Writing Love

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

  Sammy Hagar

  Player, Guitar, Guy

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• I would like to enlighten people.

  Sammy Hagar

  People, Enlightening

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• 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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Gold, Albums, Arguing

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• 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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Breakup, Disappointment, Cds

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• The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

  Sammy Hagar

  Family, Baby, Wife

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• We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

  Sammy Hagar

  Baby, Stuff, Als

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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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Careers, Fans, Sides

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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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Careers, Resumes, Solo

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