You were born to rock, you’ll never be an opera star.
NEIL YOUNGI started writing “Peace Trail” here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.
More Neil Young Quotes
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Cocaine eyes won’t hide your face.
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I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.
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As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.
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You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
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Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there’s a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it’s all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
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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 like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.
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There’s an edge to real rock ‘n’ roll. It’s all that matters.
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Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
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We don’t build a record. We’re taking a picture of it. We’re not building an image; we’re capturing an image.
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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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Everybody seems to wonder what it’s like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.
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My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way … they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.
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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
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