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It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.
Neil Peart
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Neil Peart
Age: 67 †
Born: 1952
Born: September 12
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Composer
Drummer
Jazz Musician
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Record Producer
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City of Hamilton
Neil Ellwood Peart
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I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
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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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Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
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Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.
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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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While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
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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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One likes to believe in the freedom of music...
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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
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The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
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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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Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!
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I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded.
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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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When I'm riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive.
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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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If you want something done right, just forget it.
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Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
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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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