Neil Peart Song Quotations

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

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.

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

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.

Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.

I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.