Alex Lifeson Quotes

I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn't always gone that well.

I love to play gigs.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

We're not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right before they go on stage.

Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.

I've been playing live since I was in sixth grade.

To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

We'll open for anyone, we are just looking to play.

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

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.

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.

A big part of my love and passion for making music is playing it live.

We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.

The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

The first show we ever played was at my church.

I do not recall ever seeing Spirit perform live.

Usually for the tour, there's about 80 songs in our brain.

To perform live would be amazing; that's a huge thing to undertake.

If my music career was my golf game, I'd be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere.

Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.

My first job was with The O'Jays playing drums.