Neil Young Quotes
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Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.
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I'm not the same as I was long ago, I've learned some new things and I hope that it shows.
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I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
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I try not to look back. I'm looking forward. I'm worried more about what I'm going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.
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We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.
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It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.
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I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
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It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.
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Nothing is perfect...We're really more interested in what we're saying than how we're saying it.
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I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.
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Welfare mothers make better lovers.
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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.
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I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things.
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All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.
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Old man take a look at my lifeI'm a lot like you.I need someone to love meThe whole day through.Ah, one look in my eyesAnd you can tell that's true.
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Live music is better.
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You're all just pissin' in the wind,You don't know it but you are.
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And you can't get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don't notice it any more. And that's what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it's always temporary.
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Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.
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If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.
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Bad news is just an excuse.
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I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
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Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy
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As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.