Neil Peart Quotes - Page 4

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

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

You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.

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

Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."

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.

Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"

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

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 also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.

If I do something weird, play it twice and it's a new part.

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.

As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill.

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

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.

All four winds together can't bring the world to me Shadows cast a play of light, so much I want to see Chase the sun around the world, I want to look at life-In the Available Light. I'll go with the wind, I'll stand in the light.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.

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

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.

I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.