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Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.

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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There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.
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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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Stamina is the force that drives the drumming it's not really a sprint.
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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right
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I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
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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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You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I'm going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I'm going to be all right.
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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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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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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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I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.
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If you want something done right, just forget it.
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Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...
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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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How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit
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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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From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
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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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No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is.
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