Neil Peart

Cast in this unlikely role
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers
To keep oneself intact -- Limelight (1981)

There's no bread, let 'em eat cake
There's no end to what they'll take
Flaunt the fruits of noble birth
Wash the salt into the earth -- Bastille Day (1975)

You can surrender
Without a prayer
But never really pray
Pray without surrender
You can fight
Without ever winning
But never ever win
Without a fight -- Resist (1996)

Anarchist reactionary, running-dog revisionist
Hindu, Muslim, Catholic creation, evolutionist
Rational, romantic, mystic, cynical, idealist
Minimal expressionist, post-modern neo-symbolist Armchair rocket scientist, graffiti existentialist
Deconstruction primitive performance photo-realist
Be-bop or a one-drop or a hip-hop, lite-pop-metallist
Gold adult contemporary, urban country capitalist -- You Bet Your Life (1991)

A few guys with guns can spoil everything. -- The Masked Rider (1996)

How can anybody be enlightened?
Truth is after all so poorly lit -- Turn The Page (1987)

The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you
I know it makes no difference
To what you’re going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you... -- Distant Early Warning (1984)

A scorching blast of golden fire as it slowly leaves the ground
Tears away with a mighty force
The air is shattered by the awesome sound -- Countdown (1982)

Danger plus survival equals fun. --From A Work in Progress

I can't play to that! - on Rock Band

Genius is the fire that lights itself. -Commenting on Buddy Rich.

I feel the sense of possibilities
I feel the wrench of hard realities
The focus is sharp in the city -- The Camera Eye (1981)

...if the music stops and there's only the sound of the rain
All the hope and glory -- All the sacrifice in vain
(And) If love remains, though everything is lost
We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost -- Bravado (1991)

No hero in your tragedy,
No daring in your escape,
No salutes for your surrender,
Nothing noble in your fate,
Christ, what have you done? -- The Pass (1989)

You don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free.
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dream might be. -- Something for Nothing (1976)