Neil Young Quotes
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Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.
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I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.
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This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.
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You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
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You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.
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Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.
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The economy was getting so bad, I had to lay myself off.
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It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking about just general cultural revolution. Bush has polarised the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy.
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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 started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.
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Vietnam War brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today.
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The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.
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Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.
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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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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 just do what I do. I like to make music.
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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.
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I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.
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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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Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.
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Every junkie is like a setting sun.
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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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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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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.