Sammy Hagar Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• After I had my dream, I got into numerology. Like my buddy's name is Bill, and I would say, "B is a two, and each I is a nine, and the L's are fours. And that's eight." I would figure out everybody's numerological single-digit number.

  Sammy Hagar

  Dream, Eight, Names

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

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• "Rock Candy" was my first record. I had never been in a studio, so I was in shock and I had no idea if it was great or if it stunk. I was just putting in my heart and soul, and closing my eyes and keeping my fingers crossed. I gave it everything.

  Sammy Hagar

  Heart, Eye, Rocks

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.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'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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• 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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Names, Long

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

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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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Mom, Dream, Dog

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

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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'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 can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

  Sammy Hagar

  Mean, Cat, Thinking

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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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Arms, Good Things, Enjoy

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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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• 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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Dark, Negative, Video

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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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Writing, Together, Pieces

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• I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.

  Sammy Hagar

  Night, Loud, Electric

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• I would like to enlighten people.

  Sammy Hagar

  People, Enlightening

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