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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.

Neil Young

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
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 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
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
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
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
In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.
NEIL YOUNG

Friend Night Old Travel
Music lovers always want to hear the best. It’s about freedom of choice, we supply the music.
NEIL YOUNG

Choice Freedom Music
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
The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we’re creating now, we’re pollinating the universe.
NEIL YOUNG

Creating Rocket Satellite
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
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
Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
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Hard People Song Work
It is better to burn out then fade away
NEIL YOUNG

Away Burned Fa De Out
Learning from other people is what music is all about.
NEIL YOUNG

Learn Music Other People
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

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