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.
NEIL YOUNGHard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
More Neil Young Quotes
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Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
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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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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
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It is better to burn out then fade away
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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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Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can’t describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.
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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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There’s an edge to real rock ‘n’ roll. It’s all that matters.
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Music lovers always want to hear the best. It’s about freedom of choice, we supply the music.
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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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As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.
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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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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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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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