Neil Young Quotes
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It's gotta be fun, if it's not fun it's not worth doing. Music is about having a good time feeling your soul, whether it makes you laugh or it makes you cry, just so long as you feel as much as you can. That's the mission of Pono.
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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.
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If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar
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You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.
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In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.
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Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.
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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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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'.
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We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.
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The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end.
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It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.
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Only love can break your heart.
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Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan.
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Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.
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Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
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Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.
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What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen.
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Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.
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I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.
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I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.
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You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.
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Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.
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There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high