Neil Peart Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”
-- Neil PeartSource : Neil Peart (2011). “Roadshow: Landscape With Drums: A Concert Tour By Motorcycle”, p.122, ECW Press
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“Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.”
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“A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.”
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“What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.”
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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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“There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.”
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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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“Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.”
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“It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.”
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“Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.”
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“Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.”
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“If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.”
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“I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.”
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“...but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity.”
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“Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.”
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“Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.”
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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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“Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.”
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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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“You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill.”
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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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“No changes are permanent, but change is.”
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“Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.”
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“To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.”
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“If the future's looking dark, We're the ones who have to shine. If there's no one in control, We're the ones who draw the line. Though we live in trying times, We're the ones who have to try. And we know that time has wings, So we're the ones who have to fly.”
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“It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.”
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“The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.”
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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 hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway”
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