Canadian - Musician | September 12, 1952 -
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
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It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.
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I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea, and it would change things. That's a harmless conceit. 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.
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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.
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You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.
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Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.
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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.
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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.
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For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.
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What I've learned over the years is that the craft of songwriting is trying to take the personal and make it universal - or in the case of telling a story, taking the universal and making it personal.
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There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.
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I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.
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