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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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I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing.

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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.

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For me to call myself a musician, it's necessary to play live, and it rewards so much - not just in the pay cheque sense but what it does for my playing. I feel it through a tour - I feel it at the end of a tour - all that I've gathered, and especially now that I am improvising so much.

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Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.

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

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If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

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

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Rudimental snare work is something I've always loved.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Musician

Born: September 12th, 1952

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