Neil Young Quotes
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Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it's on the vine. Handful of thorns And you'll know you missed it. You lose your love When you say the word MINE.
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Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.
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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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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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Every wave is new until it breaks.
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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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I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.
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It's injustice. It's wrong. The pipeline companies didn't get the permission. They didn't do the things they should have done in the first place. They tried to just bully their way through there and they got stopped. But they're not really stopping.
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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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I just do what I do. I like to make music.
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I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
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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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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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It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
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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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A sparkle was in his eye, but his life was in his hand.
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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
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I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance
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Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.
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As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.
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That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.
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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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Where the eagle glides ascendingThere's an ancient river bendingThrough the timeless gorge of changesWhere sleeplessness awaits.
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We got a thousand points of lightFor the homeless man.We got a kinder, gentler,Machine gun hand.We got department storesAnd toilet paperGot styrofoam boxesFor the ozone layer.Got a man of the people,Says keep hope aliveGot fuel to burn,Got roads to drive.