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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
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City of Hamilton
Neil Ellwood Peart
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How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit
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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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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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While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
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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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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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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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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
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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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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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...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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I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
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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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Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
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Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.
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You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
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