Neil Young Quotes
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My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.
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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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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 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 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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Holding back is so close to stealing.
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It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.
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Out of the blue and into the black
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Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.
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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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This time 2016 is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.
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Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.
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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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Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.