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Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!

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Neil Peart
Age: 67 †
Born: 1952
Born: September 12
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Composer
Drummer
Jazz Musician
Lyricist
Musician
Record Producer
Songwriter
Writer
City of Hamilton
Neil Ellwood Peart
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If you want something done right, just forget it.
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Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.
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Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.
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I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
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You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.
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Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
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Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...
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All four winds together can't bring the world to me Shadows cast a play of light, so much I want to see Chase the sun around the world, I want to look at life-In the Available Light. I'll go with the wind, I'll stand in the light.
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But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...
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I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
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I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
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Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.
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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.
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Stamina is the force that drives the drumming it's not really a sprint.
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Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
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It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.
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