Alex Lifeson Quotes
I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogether different.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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I have plenty of good friends that I think the world of - and Bob Dylan is one of them, and I like his music - but with some others... their music I just don't care too much about all of it. Some of it I like.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it context, interesting chord changes and true musicianship.
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I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?
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Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.
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I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogether different.
