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Neil Peart

Canadian Musician

Born: Sep 12, 1952

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

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In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter's house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again. Neil Peart

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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. Neil Peart

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I've heard the stories. Like, Eric Clapton said he wanted to burn his guitar when he heard Jimi Hendrix play. I never understood that because, when I went and saw a great drummer or heard one, all I wanted to do was practice. Neil Peart

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. Neil Peart

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I'd be very honored to be the ambassador to drum solos. Neil Peart

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If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight Show', or Gene Krupa. Neil Peart

Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament. Neil Peart

Too Much Too Temperament Attention Much Much Attention Agree

There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming. Neil Peart

Jazz Drumming Bullies Blood

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that. Neil Peart

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Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way. I help panhandlers, but other people are, 'Oh look at that - why doesn't he get a job?' While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly. Neil Peart

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To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny and more than just jokes about human gaseousness. Neil Peart

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For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party. Neil Peart

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Rudimental snare work is something I've always loved. Neil Peart

Work Something Always Snare Loved

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. Neil Peart

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Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good. Neil Peart

Good Kid Never Famous Wanted Even

We don't want to be Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. That type of thing wasn't what we were after. It was most important for each of us to be equal in input and output - each of us has to pull the same amount, musically, in composition and in every sense of being in the band. Neil Peart

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Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!' Neil Peart

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It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music. Neil Peart

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I am the audience. I want to observe people. Even when I'm playing drums onstage, I'm watching people. I'm looking at them and their faces and their T-shirts and their signs. And travelling by motorcycle, especially, the world is just coming at me. Neil Peart

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