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.
NEIL YOUNGEverything is minimal, and if it’s over, it’s over. We’re abrupt with things: in and out. Especially if it’s an overdub – it’s gone. It does something that’s not real.
More Neil Young Quotes
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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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Cocaine eyes won’t hide your face.
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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
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I want to be a reflection of what’s going on and let people draw their own conclusions.
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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
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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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I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.
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You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
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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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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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The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we’re creating now, we’re pollinating the universe.
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Everything is minimal, and if it’s over, it’s over. We’re abrupt with things: in and out. Especially if it’s an overdub – it’s gone. It does something that’s not real.
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Welfare mothers make better lovers.
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The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
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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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