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Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.
Neil Peart
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Neil Peart
Age: 67 †
Born: 1952
Born: September 12
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
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City of Hamilton
Neil Ellwood Peart
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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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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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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
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One likes to believe in the freedom of music...
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How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit
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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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Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free
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...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.
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I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.
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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?
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While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
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As crises came up later on - Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this, I'd be like, No, I don't have to.
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Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.
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Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...
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If you want something done right, just forget it.
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Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway
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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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Sometimes you're up against everybody in the whole world - even your friends and family are saying, You need a single. You feel sometimes incredibly alone.
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