Neil Young Quotes
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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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I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.
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Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.
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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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Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.
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Southern man better keep your head.Don't forget what your good book said.Southern change gonna come at lastNow your crosses are burning fast.Southern man.
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I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.
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Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
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When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.
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I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.
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Don't let it bring you downIt's only castles burning,Just find someone who's turningAnd you will come around.
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I like to go in right away as soon as I have things.
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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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Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
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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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When I was a younger man,Got lucky with a rock 'n' roll band,Struck gold in Hollywood,All the time I knew I wouldGet back to the country,Back where it all began.Get back to the country,Back in the barn again.
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Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.
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It's gotta be fun, if it's not fun it's not worth doing. Music is about having a good time feeling your soul, whether it makes you laugh or it makes you cry, just so long as you feel as much as you can. That's the mission of Pono.
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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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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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Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.
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I'm singin' this borrowed tune I took from the Rolling Stones,Alone in this empty room, too wasted to write my own.
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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
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Every wave is new until it breaks.