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.
NEIL YOUNGSouthern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
More Neil Young Quotes
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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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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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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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Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
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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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I 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.
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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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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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Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.
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Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
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In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.
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Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
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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 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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