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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.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
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.
Neil Peart Rush
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I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
Neil Peart Rush -
I love to write. It's my first love.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.
Neil Peart Rush -
People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
Neil Peart Rush -
Everybody has terrible things that they deal with. Everybody. Just because you're some big shot rock star doesn't mean you're immune to having these awful tragedies in your life.
Alex Lifeson Rush -
Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.
Neil Peart Rush
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I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Neil Peart Rush -
I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.
Neil Peart Rush -
I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.
Alex Lifeson Rush
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I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.
Neil Peart Rush -
When I'm riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive.
Neil Peart Rush -
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.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
Neil Peart Rush
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I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
Neil Peart Rush -
...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.
Neil Peart Rush -
It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
If I start mining for opinions on hundreds of websites that have fan forums, I'll be totally distorted in my view of myself. I'll lose myself in all that.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush