Neil Peart Quotes
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While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
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Wheels can take you around.Wheels can cut you down.We can go from boom to bust.From dreams to a bowl of dust.We can fall from rockets' red glare, down to 'Brother can you spare...'Another war.Another wasteland.And another lost generation - Between The Wheels (1984)
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Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet.
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Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half.
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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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They say there are strangers who threaten usIn our immigrants and infidelsThey say there is strangeness too dangerousIn our theaters and bookstore shelvesThat those who know what's best for usMust rise and save us from ourselves - Witch Hunt (Part III of 'Fear') (1980)
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How I prayed just to get awayTo carry me anywhereSometimes the angels punish usBy answering our prayers - Carnies (2012)
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The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
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I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.
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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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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
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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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You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.
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When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"
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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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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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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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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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Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.
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What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.
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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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People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
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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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Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."