Alex Van Halen
Alex Van Halen
Alexander Arthur "Alex" Van Halenis a Dutch-American musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen. Originally, his brother Eddie played drums, while Alex practiced guitar. After spending time playing Eddie's drum kit, Alex became more skillful at the drums than Eddie...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 May 1953
CountryUnited States of America
impossible impossibility
Some things are impossible.
progress vans work-in-progress
Van Halen is a work in progress.
thinking talking mind
Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
planets
You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.
jobs creating rocks
I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
differences people band
Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.
brother rooms minutes
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.
play live-in-the-moment done
Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
records
Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
differences yeah
Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.
together vans van-halen
The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
planets music-is behinds
When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
timing consciousness situation
Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
behind box changed dollars scores
You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.