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Neil Peart
Age: 67 †
Born: 1952
Born: September 12
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Composer
Drummer
Jazz Musician
Lyricist
Musician
Record Producer
Songwriter
Writer
City of Hamilton
Neil Ellwood Peart
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Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...
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Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...
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Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.
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You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I'm going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I'm going to be all right.
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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
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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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From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
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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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The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.
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Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.
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To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.
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The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.
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The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
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Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.
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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
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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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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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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
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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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