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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.

Neil Young

An idea discovered is much better possessed.
NEIL YOUNG

Discover Ideas Possessed
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.
NEIL YOUNG

People Thinking Way
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 YOUNG

Eye Music People
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.
NEIL YOUNG

Next Past Reason
Music lovers always want to hear the best. It’s about freedom of choice, we supply the music.
NEIL YOUNG

Choice Freedom Music
There’s an edge to real rock ‘n’ roll. It’s all that matters.
NEIL YOUNG

Matter Real Rock
You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
NEIL YOUNG

Change Lady Old Shirt
It’s a blue album, but it’s not a blues album. I’m not pretending all of a sudden now I’m blues.
NEIL YOUNG

Album Blue Eye Sudden
We’re very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we’ve learned.
NEIL YOUNG

Evolve Highly Learn Responsible
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 YOUNG

Country Music Song
I don’t like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.
NEIL YOUNG

Country Democracies People
Learning from other people is what music is all about.
NEIL YOUNG

Learn Music Other People
A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.
NEIL YOUNG

Job Left Reach Stage
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.
NEIL YOUNG

Country Couple People Writing
Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can’t describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.
NEIL YOUNG

Abstract Describe Freedom
You are like a hurricane, there’s calm in your eyes, and I’m getting blown away.
NEIL YOUNG

Eye Hurricane Song
The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
NEIL YOUNG

Degenerates Morality Person
It is better to burn out then fade away
NEIL YOUNG

Away Burned Fa De Out
Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
NEIL YOUNG

Negative Song World
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’.
NEIL YOUNG

Emotion Everything Give Ready
True love opens the gates of time.
NEIL YOUNG

Gate Open Song Time
Cocaine eyes won’t hide your face.
NEIL YOUNG

Alcohol Drug Eye
The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we’re creating now, we’re pollinating the universe.
NEIL YOUNG

Creating Rocket Satellite
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?
NEIL YOUNG

Country Eye Lying Men People
We don’t build a record. We’re taking a picture of it. We’re not building an image; we’re capturing an image.
NEIL YOUNG

Building Picture Record
Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.
NEIL YOUNG

Down Drag Philosophy
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.
NEIL YOUNG

Life Song Think

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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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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