Neil Young Quotes
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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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Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.
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Imagination is my best friend.
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We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.
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Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.
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I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?
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Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.
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My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.
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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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This time 2016 is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.
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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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I like to go in right away as soon as I have things.
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A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.
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As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.
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Learning from other people is what music is all about.
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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 got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.
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Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.
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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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Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.
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And the world on a string doesn't mean a thing.
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Bad news is just an excuse.
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Out of the blue and into the black
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The youth of this country are not behind what is going on. We all know that. If you looked at a political map of the United States 25 and under, it's all-revealing. It's a unified map.