Alex Lifeson Quotes

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

It's a hobby for me, but I'm never alone if there's a guitar there.

I love all my guitar solos.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

I love singing just for my own benefit.

When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.

I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing.

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

I can't imagine life without singing.

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

The guitar can go at a scream. It can yell at you.

To have a man play guitar and sing to you is cool.

I love playing acoustic guitar because I strum with my hands to feel more connected.

I started playing guitar when I was nine and just fell in love with that - I've been playing nonstop ever since.

The guitar is the most beautiful of all instruments.

When I do find myself having downtime, I just put my guitar in my hands.