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Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.

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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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Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!
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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
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Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.
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If you want something done right, just forget it.
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One likes to believe in the freedom of music...
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When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!
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Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.
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You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I'm going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I'm going to be all right.
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It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.
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I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded.
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Stamina is the force that drives the drumming it's not really a sprint.
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The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.
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To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.
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Adventures suck when you're having them.
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While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
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The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.
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We're only immortal for a limited time.
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Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...
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