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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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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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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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We're only immortal for a limited time.
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Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.
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Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
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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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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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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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Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?
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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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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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...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.
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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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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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A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right
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As crises came up later on - Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this, I'd be like, No, I don't have to.
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Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.
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Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...
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