Rush (band)/Quotes

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!

—Geddy Lee performing for Rush, "Freewill" from the album Permanent Waves

Be cool, or be cast out...

—Rush, "Subdivisions"

Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt
That's far too fleet...

—Rush, "Freewill"

My band was going to cover a Rush song, but we had to scrap the idea because we couldn't afford the helium tanks for our lead singer.

—ryanj@uakron.edu

A piece of wood is just a piece of wood, until Neil [Peart, of Rush] picks it up and hits something with it. Then it's a relic. Unless of course that something is a person. Then it's evidence.

—Rebekah Mills (rebekah@worldnet.att.net)

When we are young
Wandering the face of the Earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth
Learning that we're only immortal
For a limited time.

—Rush, "Dreamline"

No his mind is not for rent,
To any god or government.
There's always hope for his discontent --
He knows changes aren't permanent,
But change is.

—Rush, "Tom Sawyer"

It's sort of like when people say "Rush only has one song." That's bullshit. Everyone knows there are two Rush songs -- the old one, and the new one.

—Shawn Knight

And if the music stops
There's only the sound of the rain
All the hope and glory
All the sacrifice in vain
If love remains
Though everything is lost
We will pay the price
But we will not count the cost

—Rush, "Bravado"

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