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. Neil Peart Read Quote
The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold. Neil Peart Read Quote
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. Neil Peart Read Quote
Anytime I have an idea, I’ll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don’t have to dream it all out of thin air. I don’t have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes. Neil Peart Read Quote
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. Neil Peart Read Quote
For me to call myself a musician, it’s necessary to play live, and it rewards so much – not just in the pay cheque sense but what it does for my playing. I feel it through a tour – I feel it at the end of a tour – all that I’ve gathered, and especially now that I am improvising so much. Neil Peart Read Quote
When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that’s what made the drum set possible. Neil Peart Read Quote
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. Neil Peart Read Quote
