Neil Young Quotes
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You are like a hurricaneThere's calm in your eye.And I'm gettin' blown awayTo somewhere saferWhere the feeling stays.I want to love you butI'm getting blown away.
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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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I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music.
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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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Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.
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One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
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This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.
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With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.
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I guess I'll call it sickness gone,It's hard to say the meaning of this song.
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We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice.
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When I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash.
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Everything is minimal, and if it's over, it's over. We're abrupt with things: in and out. Especially if it's an overdub - it's gone. It does something that's not real.
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Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl.
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All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.
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I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.
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My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.
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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 like it if people enjoy what I'm doing, but if they don't, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it's good for them.
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When you dance,Do your senses tingle?Then take a chance?In a trance,While the lonely mingleWith circumstance?
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There you stood on the edge of your featherExpecting to fly.While I laughed, I wondered whetherI could wave goodbyeKnowin' that you'd gone.
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Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.
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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 watched the needle take another man.
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I've been flyin' down the road,And I've been starvin' to be alone,Independent from the scene that I've known.