Neil Peart Men Quotations

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.

And the men who hold high placesmust be the ones who startto mold a new realitycloser to the heart.

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.

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.