Neil Young Quotes
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There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal.
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I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.
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Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.
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I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
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The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they do their own version ... whatever they want to do it's a home run for music. Unless they screw it up, and try to put something on it so that they can own it - I'm calling it out, proprietary formats are not a good thing.
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It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
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I try not to look back. I'm looking forward. I'm worried more about what I'm going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.
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Will I see you giveMore than I can take?Will I only harvest some?As the days fly pastWill we lose our graspOr fuse it in the sun?Did she wake you upTo tell you thatIt was only a change of plan?Dream up, dream up,Let me fill your cupWith the promise of a man.
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Live music is better.
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I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
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As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
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You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.
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I watched the needle take another man.
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My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.
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You're all just pissin' in the wind,You don't know it but you are.
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We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.
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Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.
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You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.
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I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.
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Like a mountain that's growing.
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The king is gone but he's not forgotten
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I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things.
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Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy
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No one has the answers, but one thing is true. You got to turn on evil, when its coming after you.