Neil Young Quotes
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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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I'm not waiting for times to change I want to live like a free-roaming soul on the highway of our love.
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Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities
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Like a mountain that's growing.
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Now I'm at a point where I decided I'm going to be in the studio for a while, at least until I finish this record I'm working on now. I should have two, three, four of the sessions that I had that were similar to the sessions for Peace Trail before I have a complete record.
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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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All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it.
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Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.
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It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.
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I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.
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Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.
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I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
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Live music is better.
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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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I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
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In my little boxAt the top of the stairWith my Indian rugAnd a pipe to share.
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I gave to you, now, you give to meI'd like to know what you learned.The sky is blue and so is the seaWhat is the color, when black is burned?
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I've seen the needle and the damage done.A little part of it in everyone.But every junkie's like a settin' sun.
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Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.
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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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I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.
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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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You take my hand,I'll take your handTogether we may get awayThis much madness is too much sorrowIt's impossible to make it today.
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I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.