Neil Peart
"I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides."
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"I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides."
"أستطيع أن أعبد الطبيعة، وفيها أجد ما يروي ظمئي للمعجزات والجمال. ويمنح الفن الوجود عمقاً روحياً؛ ففي الموسيقى واللوحات والكتب أكتشف عوالم أرحب وأعمق من عالمي. ومن أصدقائي وعائلتي أتلقى أسمى البركات، وأعمق التواصل العاطفي، وأصدق التأكيد لذاتي. يمكنني أن أنحني إجلالاً أمام أعمال الإنسان، من الصروح الشاهقة إلى الأطفال الرضع، وفي ذلك أجد ما يروي حاجتي للدهشة. أستطيع أن أؤمن بقدسية الحياة، فتغدو هي الكلمة المنزلة، لأعيش حياتي كما أرى أنها يجب أن تكون، لا كما يمليها عليّ مرشدون نصّبوا أنفسهم."
Neil Peart
The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa
"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?"
"هل الجحيم إلا موضعٌ يغيب فيه احترام الذات؟ مكانٌ لا يجد فيه المرء فخرًا بوجوده أو سلوكه، فلا يبقى له فخرٌ بأحدٍ أو بشيءٍ سواه؟"
Neil Peart
"If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me."
"إن اضطررتُ للترحال، فسأرحل على طريقتي وفي العالم الحقيقي. وسأخوض أحاديث يومية مع الناس في محطات الاستراحة ومحطات الوقود والفنادق والمطاعم. ذلك يغذّي روحي."
Neil Peart
"It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music."
"ما يتردد في خلدك من أنغام ليس هو ما سيصل إلى مسامع الآخرين. بل عليك أن تتمكن من تجسيدها بما يضاهي الرؤيا التي تستقر في عقلك، وهنا يبرز دور التقنية والتكنولوجيا، والمعرفة المتعمقة، بلا شك. فليس من الصواب، ولن يكون كذلك أبداً، أن يظن المرء أن جاهلاً يمكنه أن يعتزل في قبو ويبدع فناً عظيماً."
Neil Peart
"The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring."
"إن المحك الحقيقي للموسيقي هو الأداء الحي. فبينما يسهل قضاء وقت طويل في إتقان العزف داخل الاستوديو، فإن القدرة على فعله أمام الجمهور هي ما يدفعني للعودة إلى الجولات الفنية مراراً وتكراراً."
Neil Peart
"I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways."
"أنا أتعلم باستمرار، وأتطور كإنسان على الدوام. وآمل أنني أتحسن في كل الجوانب المهمة."
Neil Peart
"It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse."
Neil Peart
"I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years."
Neil Peart
"To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. I have no patience with that kind of attitude, whether it's on radio or among friends."
Neil Peart
"Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete. Genetic blends, with uncertain ends."
Neil Peart
"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
"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
"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
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