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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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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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The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.
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Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.
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Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
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One likes to believe in the freedom of music...
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I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
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The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect It's a measure of a life The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect, The way you live, the gifts that you give In the fullness of time, It's the only return that you expect
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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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A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right
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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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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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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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We're only immortal for a limited time.
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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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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.
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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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Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.
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Adventures suck when you're having them.
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