We’re very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we’ve learned.
NEIL YOUNGIt’s a blue album, but it’s not a blues album. I’m not pretending all of a sudden now I’m blues.
More Neil Young Quotes
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Cocaine eyes won’t hide your face.
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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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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
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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.
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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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Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
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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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You are like a hurricane, there’s calm in your eyes, and I’m getting blown away.
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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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There’s an edge to real rock ‘n’ roll. It’s all that matters.
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Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.
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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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As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.
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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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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.
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We don’t build a record. We’re taking a picture of it. We’re not building an image; we’re capturing an image.
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You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
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Welfare mothers make better lovers.
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Think I’ll roll another number for the road
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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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A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.
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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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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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Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
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True love opens the gates of time.
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