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Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.

Neil Peart

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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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Anchor
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More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'
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Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...
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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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We're only immortal for a limited time.
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How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit
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I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
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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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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
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