Top 100 Neil Peart Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.”

— Neil Peart

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

— Neil Peart

3. “From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.”

— Neil Peart

4. “Live for yourself there’s no one else more worth living for.”

— Neil Peart

5. “We’re only immortal for a limited time.”

— Neil Peart

6. “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.”

— Neil Peart

7. “When I’m riding my motorcycle, I’m glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I’m glad to be alive.”

— Neil Peart

8. “No changes are permanent, but change is.”

— Neil Peart

9. “You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.”

— Neil Peart

10. “Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.”

— Neil Peart

11. “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.”

— Neil Peart

12. “And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.”

— Neil Peart

13. “Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.”

— Neil Peart

14. “You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill.”

— Neil Peart

15. “With people too, you constantly think, “If I’m nice to people and treat them well, they’ll appreciate it and behave better.” They won’t, but it’s still not a bad way to live.”

— Neil Peart

16. “If you’ve got a problem, take it out on a drum.”

— Neil Peart

17. “If the future’s looking dark, We’re the ones who have to shine. If there’s no one in control, We’re the ones who draw the line. Though we live in trying times, We’re the ones who have to try. And we know that time has wings, So we’re the ones who have to fly.”

— Neil Peart

18. “I will choose a path that’s clear, I will choose freewill.”

— Neil Peart

19. “Those who know what’s best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.”

— Neil Peart

20. “Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled.”

— Neil Peart

21. “From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.”

— Neil Peart

22. “If you want something done right, just forget it.”

— Neil Peart

23. “Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that’s far too fleet.”

— Neil Peart

24. “Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.”

— Neil Peart

25. “Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.”

— Neil Peart

26. “Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.”

— Neil Peart

27. “Adventures suck when you’re having them.”

— Neil Peart

28. “Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.”

— Neil Peart

29. “One likes to believe in the freedom of music.”

— Neil Peart

30. “Don’t try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.”

— Neil Peart

31. “Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.”

— Neil Peart

32. “No one gets to their heaven without a fight.”

— Neil Peart

33. “Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half.”

— Neil Peart

34. “All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it’s really just a question of your honesty.”

— Neil Peart

35. “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...”

— Neil Peart

36. “Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.”

— Neil Peart

37. “It’s always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.”

— Neil Peart

38. “We can walk our road together if our goals are all the same. We can run alone and free if we pursue a different aim. Let the truth of Love be lighted. Let the love of truth shine clear. Sensibility armed with sense and liberty with the Heart and Mind united in a single perfect sphere.”

— Neil Peart

39. “Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.”

— Neil Peart

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40. “A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right.”

— Neil Peart

41. “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.”

— Neil Peart

42. “Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.”

— Neil Peart

43. “Sometimes you’re up against everybody in the whole world – even your friends and family are saying, “You need a single.” You feel sometimes incredibly alone.”

— Neil Peart

44. “Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?”

— Neil Peart

45. “I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.”

— Neil Peart

46. “Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.”

— Neil Peart

47. “You can’t get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.”

— Neil Peart

48. “To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.”

— Neil Peart

49. “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.”

— Neil Peart

50. “While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.”

— Neil Peart