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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 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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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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I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.
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I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.
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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 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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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.
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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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I would like to enlighten people.
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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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