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If you want something done right, just forget it.

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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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From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.
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Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.
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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
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While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
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Stamina is the force that drives the drumming it's not really a sprint.
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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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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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The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.
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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is.
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Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.
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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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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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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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Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!
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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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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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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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It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.
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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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