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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.

Sammy Hagar

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Sammy Hagar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 13
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I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.
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I'd say it [I Can't Drive 55] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.
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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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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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When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.
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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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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 see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.
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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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Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
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I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.
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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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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.
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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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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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Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!
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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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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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