236 Quotes by Neil Peart

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

A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right.

What a young musician’s dream, to say, “Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I’ll have those.” It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will – all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

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.

Without knowing it, I had identified a subtle but important part of the healing process. There would be no peace for me, no life for me, until I learned to forgive life for what it had done to me, forgive others for still being alive, and eventually, forgive myself for being alive.

Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half.

I watched a storm pass to the north, trailing veils of dark rain.

Just follow your front wheel.