As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.
NEIL YOUNGLearning from other people is what music is all about.
More Neil Young Quotes
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With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn’t relate to the next verse. I don’t think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
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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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It was then I knew I’d had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand
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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
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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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The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
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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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You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
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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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Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
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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’ve seen the needle And the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie’s Like a settin’ sun.
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Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can’t describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.
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A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.
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A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.
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