Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint. — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time. — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Well, I know they've always told you/ Selfishness was wrong/ Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
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… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
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… — Neil Peart Copy Share
Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half — Neil Peart Copy Share
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… — Neil Peart Copy Share
From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive. — Neil Peart Copy Share
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when… — Neil Peart Copy Share
To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time. — Neil Peart Copy Share
Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes… — Neil Peart Copy Share
“-i was "far and away"-riding my motorcycle along an american back road, skiing through the snowy Quebec woods, or lying awake in a backwater… — Neil Peart Copy Share
Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet — Neil Peart Copy Share
When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the… — Neil Peart Copy Share
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… — Neil Peart Copy Share
