Rush Quotes
- All Quotes
- News Quotes
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.
-
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.
-
The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
-
If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
-
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
-
Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
-
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
-
I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.
-
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.
-
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!"
-
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.
-
Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.
-
People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
-
I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
-
While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
-
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.
-
I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
-
I love to write. It's my first love.
-
For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.
-
What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.
-
You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.