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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
Immortal
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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
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Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
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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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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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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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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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But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...
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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.
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Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.
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Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.
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How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit
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Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled
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Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.
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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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From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
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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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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
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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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