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“If you think you’re too old for rock ’n’ roll, then you are.”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography

“Since I was about twenty-five, nothing changed, except I got smarter and wiser and things have an effect on you. But I never thought I was any older, really. It was just a very long twenty-five!”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography

“Show me someone who’s okay with losing,” he said, “and I’ll show you a loser.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“You know, I used to think, ‘Life is great, but people suck,’ but now I’ve had to learn the opposite, ‘Life sucks, but people are great.”
― Neil Peart, Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road

“That’s not hunting,” I wrote, “that’s just shooting.”
― Neil Peart, Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road

“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.”
― Neil Peart, Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road

“You know who bases their entire lives on their emotions? Three-year-old kids. And dogs. You know what else three-year-olds and dogs do? Shit on the carpet.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“And what it took me a long time to discover is that I didn’t like to climb much. I just liked to imagine the summit.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Bill O'Neill, The Ultimate Bathroom Reader: Interesting Stories, Fun Facts and Just Crazy Weird Stuff to Keep You Entertained on the Throne!

“There’s only one way to find out if a man is honest: Ask him. If he says yes, you know he’s a crook.”
― Bill O'Neill, The Ultimate Bathroom Reader: Interesting Stories, Fun Facts and Just Crazy Weird Stuff to Keep You Entertained on the Throne!

“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” “Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.”
― Marianne Jennings, So You Think You Know CANADA, Eh?: Fascinating Fun Facts and Trivia about Canada for the Entire Family

“Artists never finish a project — they just abandon it.”
― Martin Popoff, Driven: Rush in the ’90s and “In the End”

“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.”
― Martin Popoff, Driven: Rush in the ’90s and “In the End”

“The long road may make you sweat, but the short road will make you bleed.”
― Daniel Lanois, Soul Mining: A Musical Life

“When you have to teach somebody something, you become a better learner.”
― Daniel Lanois, Soul Mining: A Musical Life

“Elitism leads to isolation, isolation leads to alienation, alienation leads to the breakdown of communication.”
― Daniel Lanois, Soul Mining: A Musical Life

“Letting something you don’t understand come to fruition is an intelligence in itself.”
― Daniel Lanois, Soul Mining: A Musical Life

“It’s funny how sometimes our minds want to jump right to the reasons something might not work instead of considering how we can make something possible.”
― Lamont Dozier, How Sweet It Is: A Songwriter's Reflections on Music, Motown and the Mystery of the Muse

“Robin salua le départ du bandit par un rire joyeux, sacrifia une dernière flèche qui, après l’avoir éperonné pendant sa course, devait l’empêcher de longtemps de s’asseoir en repos.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Oeuvres complètes - Tome 1

“In the swift whirl of time, music is a constant, reminding us of what we were and of that toward which we aspire.”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“I’ve read that everyone has an inner age that they think they are, regardless of their actual age. I really think of myself as being about thirty.”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“Perhaps the key to any great performance is just that quality: sincerity.”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“As Nietzsche wrote, “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“Only a mediocre man is always at his best.”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
― Neil Peart, Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road

“mantra: “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”
― Rik Emmett, Lay It On The Line: A Backstage Pass to Rock Star Adventure, Conflict and TRIUMPH

“humility is great because it has no downside. It’s all upside. The problem with arrogance is it has too much downside.”
― Rik Emmett, Lay It On The Line: A Backstage Pass to Rock Star Adventure, Conflict and TRIUMPH

“He had this incredible gift of taking his own private darkness and turning it into a joyful shining light for everyone to share.”
― Rik Emmett, Lay It On The Line: A Backstage Pass to Rock Star Adventure, Conflict and TRIUMPH

“When Ray Charles passed away, Quincy Jones memorialized him on 60 Minutes, saying, “He had this incredible gift of taking his own private darkness and turning it into a joyful shining light for everyone to share.”
― Rik Emmett, Lay It On The Line: A Backstage Pass to Rock Star Adventure, Conflict and TRIUMPH

“That’s how you make art. You clear away your ego and try to shut off the thinking, calculating part of your brain. You can’t make a plan to touch a dragon’s tail.”
― Alex Van Halen, Brothers: An Intimate Account of Brotherhood and Rock Music