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Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
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It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.
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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.
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The Rush fans are pretty crazy everywhere, but they're particularly wild in South America.
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Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.
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To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.
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Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.
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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.
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I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.
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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)
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While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
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Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.
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Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet.
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Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.
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Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half.
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They say there are strangers who threaten usIn our immigrants and infidelsThey say there is strangeness too dangerousIn our theaters and bookstore shelvesThat those who know what's best for usMust rise and save us from ourselves - Witch Hunt (Part III of 'Fear') (1980)
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How I prayed just to get awayTo carry me anywhereSometimes the angels punish usBy answering our prayers - Carnies (2012)
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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.
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I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will form a kind of wave that will force people to pay attention to it.
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The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
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Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
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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.
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I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.
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I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.