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" 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
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" Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Rudimental snare work is something I've always loved. "
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" Our songs were not written to be listened to in headphones or on the radio. They were written to be played. All of the little infinite detail that went into the arrangements and giving ourselves lots of breathing room in terms of playing what we wanted to play and using up any ideas that we had - all of those were conceived to be performed. "
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" For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party. "
Neil Peart
Only
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You
" What I've learned over the years is that the craft of songwriting is trying to take the personal and make it universal - or in the case of telling a story, taking the universal and making it personal. "
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Personal
Story
" 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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" Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint. "
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" 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. "
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" Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely. "
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" It seems to me that's the only way you can have a truly creative aggregate of people is if they're all contributing in different ways. "
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Only
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" Live shows were always religion for us. We never played a show - whether it was in front of 15 people or 15,000 - where it wasn't everything we had that night. "
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Live
" People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung. "
Neil Peart
Realize
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" 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
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" 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. "
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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. "
Neil Peart
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" If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. "
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You
Still
Choose
" 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. "
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" When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that. "
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" 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. I help panhandlers, but other people are, 'Oh look at that - why doesn't he get a job?' While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly. "
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" Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament. "
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Too Much
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing. "
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" You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go. "
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You
Top
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