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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.

~Neil Peart

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I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'

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Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

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

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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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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.

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

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Musician

Born: September 12th, 1952

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