Neil Young Quotes
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I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.
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Please take my advice, please take my advice,Open up the tired eyes,Open up the tired eyes.
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I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.
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Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.
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As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.
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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 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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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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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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Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.
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As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.
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But only love can break your heartTry to be sure right from the startYes only love can break your heartWhat if your world should fall apart?
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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.
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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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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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This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
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Well, people let me tell you, it sent a chill up and down my spine,When I picked up the telephone and heard that he'd died out on the mainline.
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I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.
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It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
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Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.
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Well, all those people, they think they've got it made,But I wouldn't buy, sell, borrow or tradeAnything I have to be like one of them.I'd rather start all over again.
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Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.
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I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
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Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.