236 Quotes by Neil Peart

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.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.

I had come to appreciate the long open stretches of two-lane highway across the sagey sea and mountain-studded plateau of the Great Basin, but the towns and cities were another thing. I liked the natural face of Nevada, but was not as impressed by the human face.

I’m less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you’re guarded.

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.

I want to be an improviser, and I’ve worked very hard at that. It’s an art. You don’t just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.

If I do something weird, play it twice and it’s a new part.

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.

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, “If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!”