Neil Peart Quotes
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You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.
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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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A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right.
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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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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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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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Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.
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The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.
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Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.
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Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."
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Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...
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Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?
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Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
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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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One likes to believe in the freedom of music...
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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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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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Standing in front of a microphone where every word or every slip that you make, especially in these times, is with you forever - you want to say the right thing. I fell into having to extemporize, and it came okay because of tools I've learned. I said [to myself], "Remember [to mention] mom and dad."
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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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I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.
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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.
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I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.
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While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
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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.