Neil Young Quotes
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.
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Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.
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The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.
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I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
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Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.
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There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.
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If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
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FAITH is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer.
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Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving.
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When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
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The devil fools with the best laid plans.
