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Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.
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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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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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
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The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.
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Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
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To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.
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It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.
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One likes to believe in the freedom of music...
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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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All four winds together can't bring the world to me Shadows cast a play of light, so much I want to see Chase the sun around the world, I want to look at life-In the Available Light. I'll go with the wind, I'll stand in the light.
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Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...
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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
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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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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
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If you want something done right, just forget it.
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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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