Neil Peart

A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right

— Neil Peart

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

— Neil Peart

While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.

— Neil Peart

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

— Neil Peart

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.

— Neil Peart

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

Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!

— Neil Peart

Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway

— Neil Peart

Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It…

— Neil Peart

Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and…

— Neil Peart

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just…

— Neil Peart

To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to…

— Neil Peart

Sometimes you're up against everybody in the whole world - even your friends and family are saying, "You need a single." You…

— Neil Peart

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover…

— Neil Peart

“I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of the Holocaust, or…

— Neil Peart

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…

— Neil Peart

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

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

— Neil Peart

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

— Neil Peart

But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...

— Neil Peart

“Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete. Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.”

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Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.

— Neil Peart

Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half

— Neil Peart

“your soul is stained with the blood of the innocent, feel their pain”

— Neil Peart

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

— Neil Peart

You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the…

— Neil Peart

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I…

— Neil Peart

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined…

— Neil Peart

Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way…

— Neil Peart

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of…

— Neil Peart

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too…

— Neil Peart

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…

— Neil Peart

When they turn the pages of history, when these days have passed long ago-- will they read of us with sadness for…

— Neil Peart

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

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person…

— Neil Peart

For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear…

— Neil Peart

More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's…

— Neil Peart

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

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win…

— Neil Peart

What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better…

— Neil Peart