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One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.
Alex Lifeson Rush -
The Rush fans are pretty crazy everywhere, but they're particularly wild in South America.
Alex Lifeson Rush
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Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.
Neil Peart Rush -
And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate.
Alex Lifeson Rush -
So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."
Neil Peart Rush -
Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half.
Neil Peart Rush -
When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"
Neil Peart Rush
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The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
How I prayed just to get awayTo carry me anywhereSometimes the angels punish usBy answering our prayers - Carnies (2012)
Neil Peart Rush -
All four winds together can't bring the world to me Shadows cast a play of light, so much I want to see Chase the sun around the world, I want to look at life-In the Available Light. I'll go with the wind, I'll stand in the light.
Neil Peart Rush -
The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed up later.
Alex Lifeson Rush -
Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!
Neil Peart Rush
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Wheels can take you around.Wheels can cut you down.We can go from boom to bust.From dreams to a bowl of dust.We can fall from rockets' red glare, down to 'Brother can you spare...'Another war.Another wasteland.And another lost generation - Between The Wheels (1984)
Neil Peart Rush -
To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.
Neil Peart Rush -
I went to Kalamazoo to get my first Gibsons back in '76.
Alex Lifeson Rush -
You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.
Neil Peart Rush -
It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
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I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
With people too, you constantly think, "If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better." They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.
Neil Peart Rush