Neil Young Quotes
When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.
Quotes to Explore
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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How do you open up? I didn't know how to.
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Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.
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Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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The people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs. (p. 304)
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When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.
