Neil Young Quotes
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It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs like "Peace Trail". It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.
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I see country music, I see people who take care of their own. You've got 75 year-old guys on the road. That's what I was put here to do, y'know, so I wanna make sure I surround myself with people who are gonna take care of me. 'Cause I'm in it for the long run.
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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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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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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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The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
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Five hundred years later we're still doing it. This is a moment where we're either going to reaffirm that's what we do with Native Americans , that's who we are, or we're going to start moving toward change. A change won't come easy, because there's a lot of big money that doesn't care about any of this.
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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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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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Only love can break your heart.
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Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.
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I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.
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In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.
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Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.
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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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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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Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
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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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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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I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.
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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