Neil Young Quotes
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The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the well-funded legislative decisions all favour corporate interests over the people's.
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Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.
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It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.
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Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.
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I've seen the needle and the damage done.A little part of it in everyone.But every junkie's like a settin' sun.
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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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My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.
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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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I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
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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 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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I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.
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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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Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.
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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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Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.
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You're all just pissin' in the wind,You don't know it but you are.
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We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.
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Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.
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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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Learning from other people is what music is all about.
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Welfare mothers make better lovers.
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You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'.