Neil Young Quotes
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The king is gone but he's not forgotten
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I watched the needle take another man.
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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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We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.
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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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Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.
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Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
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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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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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Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.
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We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.
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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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It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. ... Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. ... That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.
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It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.
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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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Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.
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I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.
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All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.
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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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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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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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We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.
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Welfare mothers make better lovers.
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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.