QUOTES by Neil Peart
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When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.
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If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight Show', or Gene Krupa.
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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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I think, in music, you're always hoping that you'll have a like-minded audience and that the music you like making will appeal to them, too.
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I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing.
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Live shows were always religion for us. We never played a show - whether it was in front of 15 people or 15,000 - where it wasn't everything we had that night.
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It astonished me in the early Nineties to suddenly have musicians admit that they had been inspired and influenced by us. That meant a lot at that time. But of course, being human, the... disrespect isn't even strong enough a word, is it? The opprobrium was painful. Being popular and hated is not satisfying.
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The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.
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Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete. Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.
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Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.
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You can twist perception reality won"t budge you can raise objection I won2t be judge and jury
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The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.
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Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.
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Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
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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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From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
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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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From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.
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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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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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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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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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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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