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Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.

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Neil Peart
Age: 67 †
Born: 1952
Born: September 12
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
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Jazz Musician
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City of Hamilton
Neil Ellwood Peart
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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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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
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Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.
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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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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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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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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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If you want something done right, just forget it.
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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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It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.
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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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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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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
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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 tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.
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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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