236 Quotes by Neil Peart

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.

People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

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.

The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.