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Neil Peart
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Neil Peart
Age: 67 †
Born: 1952
Born: September 12
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
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Drummer
Jazz Musician
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City of Hamilton
Neil Ellwood Peart
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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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You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.
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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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From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.
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Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.
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It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.
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Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.
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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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Adventures suck when you're having them.
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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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The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.
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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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The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
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While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
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Stamina is the force that drives the drumming it's not really a sprint.
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Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.
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Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
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Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.
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