Neil Young Quotes
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I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.
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It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand
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The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.
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I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.
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I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
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When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.
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I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.
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To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
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I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
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My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
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I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
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Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar, Dancing on the light from star to star. Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are, I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire. I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream, You could have been anyone to me. Before that moment you touched my lips That perfect feeling when time just slips Away between us on our foggy trip.
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People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds.
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The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.
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Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.
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The economy was getting so bad, I had to lay myself off.
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There's colors on the streetRed, white and bluePeople shufflin' their feetPeople sleepin' in their shoesBut there's a warnin' signOn the road aheadThere's a lot of people sayin'We'd be better off dead.Don't feel like Satan,But I am to them.So I try to forget it,Any way I can.
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Shelter me from the powderAnd the fingerCover me with the thoughtThat pulled the triggerThink of meAs one you'd never figuredWould fade away so youngWith so much left undone.
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I was lying in a burned out basementWith the full moon in my eyes.I was hoping for replacementWhen the sun burst through the sky.There was a band playing in my headAnd I felt like getting high.I was thinking about what aFriend had saidI was hoping it was a lie.
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I've been to HollywoodI've been to RedwoodI crossed the oceanFor a heart of gold.I've been in my mind,It's such a fine lineThat keeps me searchingFor a heart of gold.And I'm getting old.
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When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.
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We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.
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See the lonely boy, out on the weekend,Tryin' to make it pay.Can't relate to joy, he tries to speak andCan't begin to say.
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Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.