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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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Forget
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There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.
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Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway
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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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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.
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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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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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For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.
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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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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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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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Stamina is the force that drives the drumming it's not really a sprint.
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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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I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.
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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 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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You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.
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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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From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.
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