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The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.

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
Songwriter
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City of Hamilton
Neil Ellwood Peart
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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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Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.
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Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...
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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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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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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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It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.
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Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.
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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
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Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.
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While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.
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We're only immortal for a limited time.
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The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
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More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'
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I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
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Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.
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