Sammy Hagar Quotes

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

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.

Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."

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.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.

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.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

I've always been kind of a speed demon.

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.

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.

I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.

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.

I would like to enlighten people.

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.

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

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.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.

If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

There are a lot of people going around where an alien took over their body, and their soul will actually leave and be, like, in a sleep or in a near-death situation.

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.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

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.

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

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.

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.

Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.

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.

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.

You just went up and started playing, the audience got into it, and it was just a great high experience. That's what I kind of invented with "Mas Tequila" in Cabo.

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.

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.

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

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.

I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later

I was kind of always attracted to red. I used to wear red socks a lot for some crazy reason.

I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.

I just have a vision of something, and it seems to go a long way. One thought goes a long way.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.