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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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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
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Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.
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I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
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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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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
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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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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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For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.
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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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Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.
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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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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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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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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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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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Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
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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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All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.
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Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
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