Traveling Music Quotes

“(Once when Buddy Rich was on the road in Michigan, he suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. As he was wheeled in on the gurney, the nurse ran alongside and asked him if he had any allergies, and Buddy growled, “Yeah — country music.”)”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“At first I would be taken aback by that observation, then I would think of them seeing other drummers on television, often faking it or playing less physically demanding music, and understood why they had that impression. I guess drumming wasn't hard work for every drummer, but it certainly was for me, the way I liked to play — as hard as I could, as fast as I could, as long as I could, and as well as I could. Playing a Rush concert was the hardest job I knew, and took everything I had, mentally and physically. I once compared it to running a marathon while solving equations, and that was a good enough analogy.”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“While I remained ambitious, punctual, and hedonistic at home, I had learned to better appreciate the timeless beauties and blessings of nature, to value sincerity as a cardinal virtue and reject the Western reverence for affectation and hypocrisy, and to make my frantic life pause for sunrises, sunsets, and full moons.”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“As the train rolled through the countryside, so lush and green, and into the sprawling suburbs of south London, I stared around at all the strangeness: the narrow little “terraced” houses all in rows of brick and chimneypots, the tiny back gardens with clotheslines and garden sheds, the little cars all on the wrong side of the road — it was all so delightfully foreign, and exotic. My first lesson that the rest of the world really was more different than I knew or imagined.”
― 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

“The keystone of any artistic construction is contained in that simple question, what is the intention?”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“A short, older man stepped up to me, sticking out his hand and saying something I couldn't hear. Thinking, "Now who's this?" I took out one of my ear monitors and said, "Sorry, I couldn't hear you." He spoke again, smiling, "Hello, I'm Charlie Watts." "Oh!" I said, taken aback, "Hello." And I shook his hand. He asked if we were going on soon, and I said yes, any minute, and he said, with a twinkle, "I'm going to watch you!" I suppose if I could have felt more pressured, that might have done it, but I was already at maximum intensity — there was no time to think of Charlie Watts and the Rolling Stones, watching them on The T.A.M.I. Show or "Ed Sullivan" when I was twelve-and-a-half, hearing "Satisfaction" snarling down the midway at Lakeside Park, Gimme Shelter at the cinema in London, listening to Charlie's beautiful solo album, Warm and Tender, so many times late at night in Quebec, or any of the other million times Charlie Watts and his band had been part of my life.”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“When punk and new wave styles exploded in the late ’70s, some established artists were nimble enough to respond to the changes around them. Some grumbled, “What am I supposed to do, forget how to play?”, and continued to ride their dinosaurs into extinction, but others willingly adapted to the streamlining and back-to-basics urges of the times, without giving up all they had learned. Former Genesis singer Peter Gabriel, for example, or former Yes keyboardist Trevor Horn, continued to produce vital, influential music through the ’80s and ’90s. Ian Anderson has continued to lead Jethro Tull out of the ’60s and ’70s and quietly through the decades, making high quality music and finding a large enough audience to continue recording and touring worldwide.”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“The songs he chose reflected that same withdrawn, private man, but this man had the gift of expressing his inner soulscape through the medium of some of the 20th century’s finest songwriters, from Rodgers and Hart to Antonio Carlos Jobim to Jimmy Webb, and as always, making those songs his own.”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“Whatever is left behind in the passing of a rare talent, so much is always lost.”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“We all know what it’s like to be alone in the snow.”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“How could anyone ever be bored in this world, when there was so much to be interested in, to learn, to contemplate?”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“How could anyone ever be bored in this world, when there was so much to be interested in, to learn, to contemplate”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“Brutus always wanted to get the most out of a day — he could carpe that diem like few people I ever met.”
― 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

“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

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

“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

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― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times