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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.

Neil Young

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

Learn Music Other People
Cocaine eyes won’t hide your face.
NEIL YOUNG

Alcohol Drug Eye
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
Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
NEIL YOUNG

Negative Song World
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
Music lovers always want to hear the best. It’s about freedom of choice, we supply the music.
NEIL YOUNG

Choice Freedom Music
Welfare mothers make better lovers.
NEIL YOUNG

Lover Mother Quality
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
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
NEIL YOUNG

Free World World
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
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
NEIL YOUNG

Hand Land Truth
The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
NEIL YOUNG

Degenerates Morality Person
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
I’ve seen the needle And the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie’s Like a settin’ sun.
NEIL YOUNG

Damage Done Little
The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
NEIL YOUNG

Artist Strong Yield
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
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.
NEIL YOUNG

Point View Views World
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
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
You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
NEIL YOUNG

Change Lady Old Shirt
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
Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
NEIL YOUNG

Hard People Song Work
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
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
I want to be a reflection of what’s going on and let people draw their own conclusions.
NEIL YOUNG

People Reflection Want
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.
NEIL YOUNG

Gone Minimal Overdub Real
The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
NEIL YOUNG

Music Point Thing

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