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" If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. "
Neil Peart
You
Still
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" I am the audience. I want to observe people. Even when I'm playing drums onstage, I'm watching people. I'm looking at them and their faces and their T-shirts and their signs. And travelling by motorcycle, especially, the world is just coming at me. "
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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. "
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" If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum. "
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" To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time. "
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" 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. "
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Principles
Believe
Heart
" The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army. "
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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. "
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Always
Simple
" I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums. "
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Expect
Want
Play
" 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. "
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Time
Hope
Getting Better
" 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. "
Neil Peart
Night
People
Live
" People say to me, 'Are you still excited when you go on tour?' Should I be excited about leaving my family? No, and no one should. It's as simple as that. If you put aside the fantasy of it, it is what it is and has to be done. And that's fine, and I pour my entire energy and enthusiasm into it, but of course, I'm of two minds about the whole idea. "
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People
Simple
You
" 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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Live
People
Way
" 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. "
Neil Peart
People
Only
You
" 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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Played
Started
Playing
" 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
Me
California
Home
" 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
" 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
" In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter's house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again. "
Neil Peart
Rich
Up
House
" 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. "
Neil Peart
Play
Team
Good
" People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung. "
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Realize
Song
Words
" 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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Life
My Life
Done
" For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party. "
Neil Peart
Only
Left
You
" 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. "
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Like
Me
Mind
" Rudimental snare work is something I've always loved. "
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Always
Work
Something
" There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming. "
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Bullies
Drumming
Jazz
" 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. "
Neil Peart
You
Top
Know
" 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. "
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Started
Sports
Skiing
" If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me. "
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Rest
World
Travel
" If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke. "
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Go
Play
Joke
" 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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Health
Care
People