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 YOUNGBack 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.
More Neil Young Quotes
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Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
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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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As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.
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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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You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
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Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.
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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
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It’s a blue album, but it’s not a blues album. I’m not pretending all of a sudden now I’m blues.
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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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I want to be a reflection of what’s going on and let people draw their own conclusions.
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Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
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The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we’re creating now, we’re pollinating the universe.
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An idea discovered is much better possessed.
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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
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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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