I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

The universe makes it possible.Your mindset makes it probable.Your behavior makes it reality.

Ninja's understand that training time is never wasted time.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

It's a terrible poison, writing.

I don't need designer things. And YOU are designer, Rush.

Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.

Oh, monsters are scared. That's why they're monsters.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.