Neil Peart
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.Collection: Dream
As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."Collection: Records
Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.Collection: School
I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.Collection: Song
Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.Collection: Trying
Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Hero
No one gets to their heaven without a fight...Collection: Fighting
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?Collection: Pride
Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...Collection: Live For Yourself
Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.Collection: Prison
I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.Collection: Mind
When I'm riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive.Collection: Motorcycle
I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Eye
I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.Collection: Believe
But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...Collection: Integrity
Different hearts beat on different stringsCollection: Heart
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.Collection: Reality
Adventures suck when you're having them.Collection: Adventure
One likes to believe in the freedom of music...Collection: Music
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.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: People
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.Collection: Sleep
Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other halfCollection: Laughing
Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.Collection: Believe
Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...Collection: Stars
More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'Collection: Prayer
Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!Collection: Guy
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.Collection: Giving Up
No changes are permanent, but change is.Collection: Permanent
Sometimes you're up against everybody in the whole world - even your friends and family are saying, "You need a single." You feel sometimes incredibly alone.Collection: Family And Friends
Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for freeCollection: Change
The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.Collection: Wish
The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.Collection: Reflection
You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.Collection: Wise
I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.Collection: Atheist
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Role Models
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.Collection: Mean
Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.Collection: Knows
Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurledCollection: Pride
Standing in front of a microphone where every word or every slip that you make, especially in these times, is with you forever - you want to say the right thing. I fell into having to extemporize, and it came okay because of tools I've learned. I said [to myself], "Remember [to mention] mom and dad."Collection: Mom