Alex Lifeson Quotes
The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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It's all about going out there, performing live, making music. But, obviously, being a guy who has thousands of screaming female fans doesn't exactly make it less fun
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I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.
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All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
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The school holidays were always an exciting time in the Brownlee household. This was the opportunity for my brother Alistair and me to escape from the classroom and enjoy the great outdoors. Our childhood was jam-packed with fun family games and activities.
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It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
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The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.
