Welcome to Rush Quotes, your ultimate source for insightful and inspiring quotes from the legendary Canadian rock band, Rush. With a career spanning over four decades, Rush has left an indelible mark on the world of music and culture, captivating audiences with their virtuosic musicianship, thought-provoking lyrics, and pioneering spirit. From the intricate rhythms of Neil Peart’s drumming to Geddy Lee’s unmistakable vocals and Geddy’s Lee’s mastery of the bass, Rush’s music resonates with fans across generations, transcending boundaries and genres.
In this collection, we curate some of the most memorable and impactful quotes from Rush’s members, Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and the late Neil Peart. Whether you’re a die-hard Rush aficionado or just discovering the band’s profound influence, these quotes offer insights into their creative process, philosophy, and enduring legacy. From musings on life’s journey to reflections on the power of music, Rush Quotes celebrates the wisdom and inspiration found within the band’s storied career. Explore, enjoy, and let the words of Rush ignite your imagination and fuel your passion for music and life. Without further ado, dive into the wisdom of Rush below.
I used to rush home to see ‘Match Of The Day.’ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it. George Best
If we don’t choose to intentionally and consciously slow down and stop being in a rush, your body and mind will force you to do it anyway. Jay Shetty
When people say ‘marriage’ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship. Lady Gaga
Yes, it’s true – I love the roar of the crowd. When the fans are with you, their voices come together in a big booming rush of sound that you can actually feel in your body – almost like a wave that lifts you and carries you past your own limits. Dwyane Wade
To witness history and science being made in front of your eyes is the rush. Ginger Zee
I’ve driven in rush hour a lot and it makes me not want to drive. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival – the freaks who bite the heads off chickens – but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people. Hunter S. Thompson
I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing. Neil Peart
When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that’s the new music. When I hear older people saying, ‘I hate Rap or Techno’ I rush to it. George Clinton
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Alexander Pope
As teenagers, we used to listen to entire Rush albums, entire Pink Floyd albums and shut down the lights and it was great. John Petrucci
It’s easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing! Francis Chan
I specifically remember doing the musical ‘Sweet Charity’ at Stagedoor. I was playing Vittorio Vidal, which is a very funny part, and some other small roles. I couldn’t really sing that well, but there were so many fun bits, and I just remember the tremendous adrenaline rush I felt from being onstage and hearing the audience enjoying it. Sebastian Stan
Runway is like an adrenaline rush. Kendall Jenner
I don’t have to rush the fight. I have five rounds to win. Charles Oliveira
If there’s an adrenaline rush, I will find it; if there’s an anxiety attack, I will have it. Bert Kreischer
The hardest thing is when you’re in public, and you need to go to the toilet, and someone asks for a photo. And their phone is either flat, dead, or they’ve turned it off completely. You’re trying to rush to the toilet, and they want your autograph – and I hate saying no, I feel so bad. Julian Dennison
A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right – that’s something you can’t rush. Jennifer Yuh Nelson
During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo’s central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in. Barton Gellman
You can’t rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing. Anthony Fauci
For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they’ve got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I’m not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that’s the difference, I think. Tom Bodett
Barack Obama’s administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go… Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country. Henry Rollins
A lot of defenses will be in situations, down and distance, that will give away tendencies for a pass rush. Jason Kelce
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. Gustave Flaubert
You don’t want to make big decisions in a rush. Jay Shetty
Overtaking is nearly as fun as winning races. The rush you get from it is awesome. Daniel Ricciardo
Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It’s like a rush, I really enjoy that. Sebastian Vettel
I never rush myself. See, they can’t start the game without me. Satchel Paige
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. Anna Julia Cooper
If Michael Steele doesn’t make you sad, well, then there’s radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man. David Shuster
There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that. Richard Branson
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? Robin Williams
I thought the first Welsh team I played in was the golden generation, with Neville Southall, Mark Hughes, Ian Rush, Dean Saunders, Gary Speed, and Ryan Giggs. Chris Coleman
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. Woodrow Wilson
My job is never boring. It’s always new, exciting, and challenging, and I get a rush every time I go to work. I’m the luckiest person on the planet to be able to do what I love for a living. Jewel Staite
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards. Samuel Adams
It’s so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase ‘quality time’ means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out. Joanna Lumley
Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization. Alex Campbell
You’ve got to be picky in this business – if you’re not, then I don’t think you have the option of longevity. You’ve got to be choosy and try and do something that’s outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush. Aaron Paul
Geddy Lee and I went to the same grade school. He moved away when we were still young, but I remember him like I do all my friends from back then. Then in 1982, Dave Thomas and I were approached to do a record as the McKenzie Brothers on Anthem Records, the same label that Rush was on. Rick Moranis
Before I did ‘Rush Hour,’ I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them. Brett Ratner
It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don’t think they’re intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further. J. D. Vance
A good feeling for me is when you train, and then you put on fresh clothes. New clothes after a training session – you have this rush of endorphins from exercise that everybody gets, and then you get that nice feeling of fresh clothes. It’s a double whammy. Conor McGregor
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters. George Bernard Shaw
Everyone is in a rush in New York, even in restaurants and in cafes. You dont have the serenity. That, I think, is very important in order to read. Mario Vargas Llosa
I was surprised at how cosmopolitan the Gold Rush was: prospectors were of all races, genders, and countries. I was equally surprised at how fast gold prospecting became big business. Laurence Yep
I’ve learned over the years to appreciate God’s timing, and you can’t rush things; it’s gonna happen exactly when it’s supposed to. Sevyn Streeter
I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work – when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it? Rainbow Rowell
I like to take my own time, and I don’t like to rush. I do take time, and I have patience. Nargis Fakhri
The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise. Wayne Thiebaud
What childishness is it that while there’s breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around? Elizabeth Bishop
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. Franklin Pierce Adams
My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports… and life. Alexander Ludwig
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke – the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal. Corey Taylor
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush. Keith Richards
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. Georgia O’Keeffe
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush. James D. Watson
Most of my friends – when I was five, six, seven years old – their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren’t around as much. My dad finished at three o’clock, so he was just around more. J. K. Simmons
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt. Lucille Ball
There’s no real rush to answer the questions you face. To apply the best intellectual answer, you should clear your mind, stay calm, assess the question as well as you can to be comfortable, and then respond. Keith Thurman
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land. John Jakes
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams… Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writing session – even on a bad day, I know I’ll find that again if I keep going. Trudi Canavan
The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds. John Niven
As a child, I would rush to the school gates as the bell went, to be collected by my mother, Marilyn, who was always immaculately dressed in a pencil skirt and matching jacket. Kate Garraway
I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime. Al Franken
I’m going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don’t, I’ve written 14 musicals now, I don’t want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story. Andrew Lloyd Webber
The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight. Isabella Bird
Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities. Jeff Bezos
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread. Norman Ralph Augustine
You can’t rush an art form. Chet Faker
I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don’t rush into adulthood, it isn’t all that much fun. Bob Newhart
What I’ve learned about being trans in transition is just that sometimes good things don’t happen when you try to rush things. Just as a young girl grows into a young woman, you know, we transition; we grow into our bodies the same way. Angelica Ross
Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling. Walter O’Brien
Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles. Lyall Watson
I refuse to listen to Rush Limbaugh. I listen to a lot of conservative radio when I drive around in my car. I refuse to listen to him because he’s just ridiculous, just a clown. I love Rachel Maddow obviously. John Rzeznik
Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations. Neil Peart
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. Abba Eban
I’ve never felt a strong urge to rush into Hollywood, so I bided my time and waited till I had a decent body of work to show people, the icing on the cake being ‘Salmon Fishing’ and ‘Parade’s End.’ Tom Mison
I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory – yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance that war brings to life – are hard illusions to shake off. Look at me, a war correspondent. Michael Hastings
Coming from the theater, I love the adrenalin rush from working on ‘NCIS.’ You get home and you’re exhausted, but you feel like you’ve really worked. Cote de Pablo
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Garrett Hardin
I rush on the left side of the football, so I can always see where the quarterback’s looking and where the football is, so as you’re rushing the passer and turning the corner against a tackle, the ball is always in sight. T. J. Watt
When Rush Limbaugh says I’m not a scientist, I’m charmed – I smirk. Bill Nye
I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It’s a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime. Kylie Minogue
As you know now, Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party, but they’ll probably go with a different body. David Letterman
My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet. Salma Hayek
We try really hard to avoid those conventional experiences, these adrenaline rush, anger, competition, violence. We intentionally avoid that. We try to create a game that’s serene and tranquil and filled with love. Jenova Chen
I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. Dalai Lama
I’ve tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car. Nigel Mansell
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. Arthur M. Schlesinger
I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing. Valentino Rossi
People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess. Aaron Stanford
Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don’t rush. Be quick, but don’t hurry. Earl Monroe
My father-in-law gets up at 5 o’clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don’t know why there’s this big rush to do this. Jeff Foxworthy
If you view life as a gold rush, you’re going to end up worshiping a golden calf. And when you call for help, and that golden calf can’t respond, you go under. Cornel West
I like to think of myself as somebody who heals fast and can play through pain, but I’m not going to rush it at the same time. A sprained ankle, those are things I can fight through. Devin Booker
If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball. Pee Wee Reese
I am always in a rush because time is slipping away, and I am chasing it, chasing it. Dev Anand
People are so crazy about extreme sports. The rush is such a high that you want to experience it again. Rubina Dilaik
If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts. David Suzuki