Alex Lifeson Quotes

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.

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

Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.

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.

That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?

It's nice to see bands you could see at a bar finally get a chance.

I taught myself to play guitar and sing. I ended up writing a lot of music and had a band and was playing in bars and pubs all around Sydney, going on tour. I played with some pretty big bands in Australia.

All I ever wanted to do was be in a band.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

In September 1968, Rush played for around 20 people at a small hall in a church basement. We played songs like 'Spoonful,' 'Fire' and 'Born Under a Bad Sign,' and got paid $10. Then we went to a nearby deli and ordered Cokes and French fries and started planning our future.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

I love to play gigs.

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.

I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to highschool and started playing with my band.

I started in a band called 'Timbiriche', we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums.

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

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

Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time.

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.