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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
Dedicated
Honor
Future
Past

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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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We're only immortal for a limited time.
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The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.
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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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The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect It's a measure of a life The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect, The way you live, the gifts that you give In the fullness of time, It's the only return that you expect
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Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.
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It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.
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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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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'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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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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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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Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.
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Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
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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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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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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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From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
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