Neil Young Quotes
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You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
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Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.We're finally on our own.This summer I hear the drummin'.Four dead in Ohio.
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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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Where the eagle glides ascendingThere's an ancient river bendingThrough the timeless gorge of changesWhere sleeplessness awaits.
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I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.
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A dreamer of picturesI run in the night.You see us together,Chasing the moonlight,My cinnamon girl.
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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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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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Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
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He tried to do his best but he could not.
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I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.
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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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I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.
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Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.
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My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.
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Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
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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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The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.
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Rock and roll is here to stay.
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Every junkie is like a setting sun.
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Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market.
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Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.
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Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.
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Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.