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We don't want to be Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. That type of thing wasn't what we were after. It was most important for each of us to be equal in input and output - each of us has to pull the same amount, musically, in composition and in every sense of being in the band.
— Neil Peart
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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.
— Neil Peart
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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.
— Neil Peart
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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.
— Neil Peart
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Rudimental snare work is something I've always loved.
— Neil Peart
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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.
— Neil Peart
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