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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
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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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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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Adventures suck when you're having them.
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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 still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
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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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We're only immortal for a limited time.
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Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...
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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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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
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If you want something done right, just forget it.
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