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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

Neil Peart

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Neil Peart
Age: 67 †
Born: 1952
Born: September 12
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Composer
Drummer
Jazz Musician
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Record Producer
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City of Hamilton
Neil Ellwood Peart
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There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.
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Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...
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The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.
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From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
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