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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

Neil Young

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 YOUNG

Run Travel Wonder
Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
NEIL YOUNG

Negative Song World
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
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 gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
NEIL YOUNG

Change Lady Old Shirt
You are like a hurricane, there’s calm in your eyes, and I’m getting blown away.
NEIL YOUNG

Eye Hurricane Song
As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.
NEIL YOUNG

Mystique People Soon Talk
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 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
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.
NEIL YOUNG

Looks Next Trying Week
Welfare mothers make better lovers.
NEIL YOUNG

Lover Mother Quality
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
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
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
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
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
The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we’re creating now, we’re pollinating the universe.
NEIL YOUNG

Creating Rocket Satellite
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
True love opens the gates of time.
NEIL YOUNG

Gate Open Song Time
An idea discovered is much better possessed.
NEIL YOUNG

Discover Ideas Possessed
It is better to burn out then fade away
NEIL YOUNG

Away Burned Fa De Out
Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
NEIL YOUNG

Hard People Song Work
A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.
NEIL YOUNG

Affection Little World
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
We’re very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we’ve learned.
NEIL YOUNG

Evolve Highly Learn Responsible
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.
NEIL YOUNG

Downtown People Talk
Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.
NEIL YOUNG

Advice Fighting Night

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

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