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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
Composer
Drummer
Jazz Musician
Lyricist
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Record Producer
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City of Hamilton
Neil Ellwood Peart
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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
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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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But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...
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The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
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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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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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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
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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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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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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
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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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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.
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