Neil Young Quotes
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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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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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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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Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.
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You're all just pissin' in the wind,You don't know it but you are.
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I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?
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We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.
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Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
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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'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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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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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.
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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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This time 2016 is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.
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Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.
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Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.
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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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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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The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the well-funded legislative decisions all favour corporate interests over the people's.
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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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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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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.