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.
NEIL YOUNGWith 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.
More Neil Young Quotes
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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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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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You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you’ve really got a lot to give. Because if … you’re not ready to give everything you have, … then you’re nothin’.
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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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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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Cocaine eyes won’t hide your face.
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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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As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn’t see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
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Welfare mothers make better lovers.
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True love opens the gates of time.
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Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
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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’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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.
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You are like a hurricane, there’s calm in your eyes, and I’m getting blown away.
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Learning from other people is what music is all about.
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You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
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We’re very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we’ve learned.
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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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Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
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I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.
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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
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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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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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The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
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