Alex Van Halen Quotes

• You don’t leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.

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• You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you’d better do some good while you are here.

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• Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we’re making music. It’s great.

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• When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

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• When the tour is done, that’s the end of the U.S. tour. We’ll regroup and see what we’re going to do.

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• Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

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• We’re very needy people, you know.

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• We’re having a blast. Just four friends getting together.

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• Van Halen is a work in progress.

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• There’s nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

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• There is a volatile mix, and that’s because we’re all intense. And there’s no denying that.

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• The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.

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• Some things are impossible.

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• Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn’t missed a beat.

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• On a personal level, we all get along fine.

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• Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

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• Music is a dialogue.

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• Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we’re done.

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• It’s unfortunate nine years were in between – you can’t take that time back; you can’t undo it.

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• It’s part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we’d be at each other’s throats.

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Alex Van Halen (22)

Birth:	8th May, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Drummer, Musician

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Alex Van Halen is a Dutch-born American musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen. Originally, his brother Eddie had taken lessons for drums, while Alex practiced guitar. After spending time playing Eddie's drum kit, Alex became more skillful at the drums than Eddie. In 1974, the Van Halen brothers, David Lee Roth, and Michael Anthony formed a band, simply called Van Halen.

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