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1. "Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations." ~ Neil Peart
2. "If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum." ~ Neil Peart
3. "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." ~ Neil Peart
4. "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." ~ Neil Peart
5. "Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament." ~ Neil Peart
6. "Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint." ~ Neil Peart
7. "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." ~ Neil Peart
8. "excitement is found along the road, not at the end, and likewise, peace is not a fixed point-except perhaps in the unwanted "rest in peace" sense. PEACE is the breathing space between destinations, between excitements, an occasional part of the journey, if you're lucky. PEACE is a space you move through very rarely, and very briefly-but your not allowed to stay there.you have to keep moving, and go do what you do.because you can..." ~ Neil Peart
9. "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." ~ Neil Peart
10. "Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete.Genetic blends, with uncertain ends." ~ Neil Peart
11. "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." ~ Neil Peart
12. "No changes are permanent, but change is." ~ Neil Peart
13. "A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission." ~ Neil Peart
14. "Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!" ~ Neil Peart
15. "Half the world hatesWhat half the world does every dayHalf the world waitsWhile half gets on with it anyway" ~ Neil Peart
16. "You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be." ~ Neil Peart
17. "The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect,So hard to earn so easily burnedIn the fullness of time,A garden to nurture and protectIt's a measure of a lifeThe treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect,The way you live, the gifts that you giveIn the fullness of time,It's the only return that you expect" ~ Neil Peart
18. "From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive." ~ Neil Peart
19. "Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence." ~ Neil Peart
20. "Half the world criesHalf the world laughsHalf the world triesTo be the other half" ~ Neil Peart
21. "A quality of justiceA quantity of lightA particle of mercyMakes the color of right" ~ Neil Peart
22. "books, i think, are a different kind of time machine. instead of reminding you of a lost world, they create one for you. more personal, more intimate-unlike movies, say, the world you experience while reading a book has been lived and envisioned entirely from the INSIDE, and its contours are yours alone." ~ Neil Peart
23. "You can twist perceptionreality won"t budgeyou can raise objection I won2t be judge and jury" ~ Neil Peart
24. "All preordainedA prisoner in chainsA victim of venomous fateKicked in the faceYou can't pray for a placeIn heaven's unearthly estateEach of usA cell of awarenessImperfect and incompleteGenetic blendsWith uncertain endsOn a fortune hunt that's far too fleet" ~ Neil Peart
25. "New Jersey" ~ Neil Peart
26. "your soul is stained with the blood of the innocent, feel their pain" ~ Neil Peart
27. "I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides." ~ Neil Peart
28. "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?" ~ Neil Peart
29. "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 Peart
30. "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." ~ Neil Peart
31. "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." ~ Neil Peart
32. "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." ~ Neil Peart
33. "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." ~ Neil Peart
34. "I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums." ~ Neil Peart
35. "To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time." ~ Neil Peart
36. "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." ~ Neil Peart
37. "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." ~ Neil Peart
38. "If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance." ~ Neil Peart
39. "Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school." ~ Neil Peart
40. "I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of the Holocaust, or that there were Jews in America, and trying to explain it to them. Ashea, I wished I could say. Ashea." ~ Neil Peart

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