Neil Peart Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.

  Neil Peart

  Trying

  21 Copy quote

• No, his mind is not for rent
  To any God or government
  Always hopeful yet discontent
  He knows changes aren't permanent
  But change is.

  Neil Peart

  Government, Hopeful, Independence

  "Tom Sawyer". Song by Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee Weinrib, Neil Peart, Paul Philip Woods, 1981.

  21 Copy quote

• Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

  Neil Peart

  Dream, Courageous, Conviction

  7 Copy quote

• I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

  Neil Peart

  Hero, Writing, Thinking

  48 Copy quote

• No one gets to their heaven without a fight...

  Neil Peart

  Fighting, Heaven

  "Song: Armor And Sword (Snakes & Arrows)". May 1, 2007.

  15 Copy quote

• Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

  Neil Peart

  Pride, Self, People

  Neil Peart (2010). “The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa”, p.86, ECW Press

  15 Copy quote

• Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...

  Neil Peart

  Live For Yourself, Worth Living

  "Song: Anthem (Fly By Night)". February 15, 1975.

  21 Copy quote

• Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

  Neil Peart

  Prison, Reason, Disappear

  9 Copy quote

• I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

  Neil Peart

  Mind, States, Optimist

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  20 Copy quote

• When I'm riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive.

  Neil Peart

  Motorcycle, Riding, Glad To Be Alive

  Neil Peart (2011). “Roadshow: Landscape With Drums: A Concert Tour By Motorcycle”, p.22, ECW Press

  4 Copy quote

• I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

  Neil Peart

  Believe, Responsibility, Rights

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  16 Copy quote

• Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.

  Neil Peart

  Dream, Real, Wish

  18 Copy quote

• You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I'm going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I'm going to be all right.

  Neil Peart

  Jesus, Good Life, Trying

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  9 Copy quote

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

  Neil Peart

  Attention, Too Much, Agree

  4 Copy quote

• Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.

  Neil Peart

  Eye, Sight, Sea

  Neil Peart (2002). “Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road”, p.340, ECW Press

  15 Copy quote

• I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.

  Neil Peart

  Believe, Heart, Burning

  11 Copy quote

• But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...

  Neil Peart

  Integrity, Compromise, Illusion

  "Song: The Spirit Of Radio (Permanent Waves)". December 1979.

  9 Copy quote

• Different hearts beat on different strings

  Neil Peart

  Heart, Different, Beats

  4 Copy quote

• There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.

  Neil Peart

  Reality, People, World

  6 Copy quote

• Adventures suck when you're having them.

  Neil Peart

  Adventure

  Neil Peart (2011). “Far and Away: A Prize Every Time”, p.289, ECW Press

  5 Copy quote

• One likes to believe in the freedom of music...

  Neil Peart

  Music, Believe, Likes

  "Song: The Spirit Of Radio (Permanent Waves)". December 1979.

  6 Copy quote

• You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill.

  Neil Peart

  Fear, Kindness, Voice

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Neil Peart

  Thinking, Mind, Three

  5 Copy quote

• To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

  Neil Peart

  People, Nostalgic, Terrible

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Neil Peart

  Believe, Heart, Principles

  "Q&A: Neil Peart On Rush's New LP and Being a 'Bleeding Heart Libertarian'". Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. June 12, 2012.

  26 Copy quote

Page 2 of 5

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin