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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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Sammy Hagar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 13
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I would like to enlighten people.
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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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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 didn't think I'd be around 30 years later
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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 always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.
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I loved that song [Don't Tell Me], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.
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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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If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.
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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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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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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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I've always been into writing love songs.
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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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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.
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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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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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I feel it's such a tragic thing [Kurt Cobain's suicide]. Here is a guy, a young guy, that had everything in his hands. He could have had a great life. He had a wife, he had a child, he had a fantastic career. He was important to a generation. And for him to do that - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong.
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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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