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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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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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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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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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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As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
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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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It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.
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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 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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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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A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.
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I like to go in right away as soon as I have things.
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Holding back is so close to stealing.
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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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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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We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.
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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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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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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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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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Welfare mothers make better lovers.