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If the future's looking dark, We're the ones who have to shine. If there's no one in control, We're the ones who draw the line. Though we live in trying times, We're the ones who have to try. And we know that time has wings, So we're the ones who have to fly.
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And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.
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Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.
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From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.
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Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasiesBut most of us just dream about the things we'd like to beSadder still to watch it die, then never to have known itFor you, the blind who once could seeThe bell tolls for thee... - Losing It (1982)
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If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.
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I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.
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Unstable conditionA symptom of lifeIn mental and environmental changeAtmospheric disturbanceThe feverish fluxOf human interface and interchange - Vital Signs (1981)
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You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill.
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Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
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Adventures suck when you're having them. - Roadshow ()
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It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.
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From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
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Danger plus survival equals fun. -From A Work in Progress
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With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
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But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.
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Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.
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Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
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All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage
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All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.
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No hero in your tragedy,No daring in your escape,No salutes for your surrender,Nothing noble in your fate,Christ, what have you done? - The Pass (1989)
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I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded.
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There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.
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The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.