Neil Peart Quotes
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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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.
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I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.
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If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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The initial notion for 'Check Your Head' was just all three of us getting back to playing instruments.
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We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia now.
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(The fielders are) just sitting out there playing jacks on the carpet, and the next thing you know the ball gets hit to them, and they can't get to it because you've put them to sleep.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I think one of the most important things when I was learning how to do that was finding songs that I liked that had guitar solos in them and trying to figure out how to play those because even if it wasn’t me playing along to a previously recorded Dropkick Murphys solo I was, at least, learning how to play like that.
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I get, like, 50 emails a day from kids being like, 'I want to go on this trip around the world. How do I get a sponsor?'
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
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All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.
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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.
