Alex Lifeson Quotes
A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in northern Ontario.
Quotes to Explore
-
By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
-
I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
-
I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
-
A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
-
I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
-
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
-
I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
-
Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
-
It's great fun to play with a really good band.
-
My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
-
I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
-
What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
-
'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.
-
We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.
-
I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.
-
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
-
I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
-
I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
-
Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?
-
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
-
I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
-
Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.
-
A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in northern Ontario.
