Neil Peart Quotes

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.

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

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

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.

If the future's looking dark, We're the ones who have to shine. If there's no one in control, We're the ones who draw the line. Though we live in trying times, We're the ones who have to try. And we know that time has wings, So we're the ones who have to fly.

It is impossible to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be a Republican. It's philosophically absolutely opposed - if they could only think about what they were saying for a minute. That's when you get caught up in the webs of what people call themselves and how they behave.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect It's a measure of a life The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect, The way you live, the gifts that you give In the fullness of time, It's the only return that you expect

We're only immortal for a limited time.

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.

All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.

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.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

If you want something done right, just forget it.

It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.

I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. I know [people] who had the popular, good-looking path in high school; they tend not to do so well. It was a little bit too easy for them, where for those of us who struggled in every sense, perhaps our determination and self-reliance and discipline were reinforced by that.

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is.

Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.