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" For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party. "
Neil Peart
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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. "
Neil Peart
People
Musicians
Rich
" It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music. "
Neil Peart
Great
Music
You
" Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with. "
Neil Peart
Morality
Always
Simple
" For me to call myself a musician, it's necessary to play live, and it rewards so much - not just in the pay cheque sense but what it does for my playing. I feel it through a tour - I feel it at the end of a tour - all that I've gathered, and especially now that I am improvising so much. "
Neil Peart
Live
Myself
Play
" 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
Change
Words
People
" 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. "
Neil Peart
Learning
Time
People
" 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!' And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch. "
Neil Peart
Work
Battle
Young
" Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.' "
Neil Peart
Reason
Me
Everything
" 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. "
Neil Peart
World
You
Ideas
" 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
Life
School
High School
" 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. "
Neil Peart
Head
Hard
Want
" 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
Moment
Air
Creative
" When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that's what made the drum set possible. "
Neil Peart
Drum
Mr
Set
" Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament. "
Neil Peart
Agree
Attention
Too Much
" 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
Good
Growing Up
Sports
" I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea, and it would change things. That's a harmless conceit. 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. "
Neil Peart
People
Nice
Change
" 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. "
Neil Peart
Always
Music
Think
" 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
Gold
History
Search
" 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. I have no patience with that kind of attitude, whether it's on radio or among friends. "
Neil Peart
Music
Life
Future
" The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to... take yourself out of the game. "
Neil Peart
Me
Yourself
Time
" The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army. "
Neil Peart
Police
Army
You
" Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeared. I'd done well in school up until that time. I was fairly adjusted socially up until that time. And I became completely monomania, obsessed all through my teens. Nothing else existed anymore. "
Neil Peart
Life
My Life
Done
" I'd be very honored to be the ambassador to drum solos. "
Neil Peart
Honored
Drum
Ambassador
" I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's as simple as that. "
Neil Peart
Health
Care
People
" 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. "
Neil Peart
Possible
Difficult
Corner
" 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
Principles
Believe
Heart
" To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny and more than just jokes about human gaseousness. "
Neil Peart
Me
Accomplish
Art
" There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming. "
Neil Peart
Bullies
Drumming
Jazz
" I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?' "
Neil Peart
You
Stories
Jesus
" 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
You
Up
Together