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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

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Sammy Hagar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 13
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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.
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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 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.
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I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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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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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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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.
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The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.
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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.
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Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.
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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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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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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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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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The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
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When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.
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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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Love Walks In, it was the same thing. That song is about aliens, by the way.
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