Neil Young Quotes
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I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record "Peace Trail".
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Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy
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We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.
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I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.
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Welfare mothers make better lovers.
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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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And the world on a string doesn't mean a thing.
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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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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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Out of the blue and into the black
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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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I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.
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I like to go in right away as soon as I have things.
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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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The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine.
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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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Learning from other people is what music is all about.
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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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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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We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.
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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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It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.
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It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.