Neil Young Quotes
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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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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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It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.
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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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Old man take a look at my lifeI'm a lot like you.I need someone to love meThe whole day through.Ah, one look in my eyesAnd you can tell that's true.
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Holding back is so close to stealing.
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I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.
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Keep on rockin' in the free world.
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Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.
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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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One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.
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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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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.
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I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record "Peace Trail".
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My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.
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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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Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.
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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.
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Welfare mothers make better lovers.
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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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Out of the blue and into the black
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You're all just pissin' in the wind,You don't know it but you are.
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Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.