But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.
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First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.
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I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.
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I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
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I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.
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I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
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I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.
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I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.
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I love to write. It's my first love.
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I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.
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I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.
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If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
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Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
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My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.
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So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.
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So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.
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Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.
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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.
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There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.
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When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them.
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With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
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