Neil Peart Quotes
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.
Sometimes you're up against everybody in the whole world - even your friends and family are saying, "You need a single." You feel sometimes incredibly alone.
Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.
I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
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.
Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.
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.
Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.
You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.
All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway
As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."
What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.
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.
From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
With people too, you constantly think, "If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better." They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.
When I'm riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive.
I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded.
When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"
Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled
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.
The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.
I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.
Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete.Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.
