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Alex Lifeson

Musician

Canadian

"One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music."

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"I am not an enthusiast when it comes to cities, preferring rolling scenery, wildlife and stars to museums, monuments, architecture and traffic."

"Lucknow's architecture is a part of life in the city."

"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."

"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."

"Layer by layer art strips life bare."

"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."

"Life is short, the art long."

"An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public."

"Wherever art appears, life disappears."

"When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that's definitely reassuring."

"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."

"It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation."

"I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that's wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved."

"The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it."

"You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package."

"When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week."

"We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough."

"The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche."

"Rush has never been a spontaneous group. We may be spontaneous in our writing, we may be spontaneous as individuals in our day to day lives... certainly I think am and always have been, but I think when it comes to Rush and our presentation of our music it's quite controlled."