Neil Ellwood Peart Quotes

• 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.

  Neil Ellwood Peart

• Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it’s not really a sprint.

  Neil Ellwood Peart

• Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

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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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• It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

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• If you’ve got a problemtake 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Topics in Future, History, Past

• When they turn the pages of history, when these days have passed long ago– will they read of us with sadness for the seeds that we let grow?

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  Topics in History, Society

• You don’t get something for nothing You can’t have freedom for free You won’t get wise With the sleep still in your eyes No matter what your dreams might be.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom

• It’s a test of ultimate will The heartbreak climb uphill Got to pick up the pace If you want to stay in the race More than just blind ambition More than just simple greed More than just a finish line Must feed this burning need.

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  Tags in Hard Work

• Well, I know they’ve always told you/ Selfishness was wrong/ Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/.

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  Tags in Individualism, Selfishness

• If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

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• Live for yourself — there’s no one else More worth living for Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more.

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  Tags in Individualism, Selfishness

• And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

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  Topics in Love, Society

  Tags in Change

Neil Ellwood Peart (18)

Birth:	12th September, 1952
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Author, Musician, Producer, Lyricist, Singer

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