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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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From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
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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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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
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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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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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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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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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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 still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
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Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.
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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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