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From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
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A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right
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Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
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Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.
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The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.
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You can twist perception reality won"t budge you can raise objection I won2t be judge and jury
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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.
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Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete. Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.
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The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.
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It astonished me in the early Nineties to suddenly have musicians admit that they had been inspired and influenced by us. That meant a lot at that time. But of course, being human, the... disrespect isn't even strong enough a word, is it? The opprobrium was painful. Being popular and hated is not satisfying.
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Live shows were always religion for us. We never played a show - whether it was in front of 15 people or 15,000 - where it wasn't everything we had that night.
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I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing.
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I think, in music, you're always hoping that you'll have a like-minded audience and that the music you like making will appeal to them, too.
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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.
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If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight Show', or Gene Krupa.
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When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.
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I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
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People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
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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.
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The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to... take yourself out of the game.
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Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.
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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.
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When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that's what made the drum set possible.
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I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
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It seems to me that's the only way you can have a truly creative aggregate of people is if they're all contributing in different ways.
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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.
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There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.
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In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter's house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again.
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If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.
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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.
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I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'
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You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.
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I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's as simple as that.
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To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.
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What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.
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What I've learned over the years is that the craft of songwriting is trying to take the personal and make it universal - or in the case of telling a story, taking the universal and making it personal.
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