Canadian Quotes

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

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.

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.

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.

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

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.

I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.