85 Best Neil Peart Quotes
Neil Ellwood Peart was a Canadian-American author and musician, famous as the drummer and lyricist for the progressive rock band Rush. At the age of 31, he was the youngest to be inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame. In his early career, Neil’s performances primarily focused on hard rock style. In later years, Peart became one of the innovators of the genre by incorporating jazz and swing components in his playing style. Peart was renowned for his technical proficiency and stamina apart from including universal and diverse subjects of science fiction, fantasy and philosophy as a lyricist. Besides his luminous career as a musician, Peart was also famous for being an author of seven non-fiction novels which were loosely based on his travelling and adventure escapades. He also got recognition as an author of ‘The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa’, ‘Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road’ and ‘Far and Away: A Prize Every Time’. We have compiled his quotes and thoughts from his lyrics, songs, books, writings, and interviews. Let us take you through these inspirational quotes from this legend of rock music.
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?
A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.
No changes are permanent, but change is.
Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.
Adventures suck when you're having them.
Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet
Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!
Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway
You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.
From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.
We're only immortal for a limited time.
Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half
From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
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.
Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.
Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right
The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.
Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.
Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete. Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.
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.
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.
You can twist perception reality won"t budge you can raise objection I won2t be judge and jury
Your soul is stained with the blood of the innocent, feel their pain
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.
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.
For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party.
I'd be very honored to be the ambassador to drum solos.
