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Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...

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
Worth
Living
Else
Live

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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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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
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Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...
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But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...
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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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One likes to believe in the freedom of music...
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I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
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Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.
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...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.
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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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Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.
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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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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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It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.
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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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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
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To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.
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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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