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If you want something done right, just forget it.

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
Musician
Record Producer
Songwriter
Writer
City of Hamilton
Neil Ellwood Peart
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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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The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.
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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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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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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
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Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.
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Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!
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Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
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Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...
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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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Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.
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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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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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All four winds together can't bring the world to me Shadows cast a play of light, so much I want to see Chase the sun around the world, I want to look at life-In the Available Light. I'll go with the wind, I'll stand in the light.
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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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From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
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The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
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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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