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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.

Neil Young

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

Advice Fighting Night
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
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
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
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
Learning from other people is what music is all about.
NEIL YOUNG

Learn Music Other People
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
I want to be a reflection of what’s going on and let people draw their own conclusions.
NEIL YOUNG

People Reflection Want
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
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
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
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
NEIL YOUNG

Free World World
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
Welfare mothers make better lovers.
NEIL YOUNG

Lover Mother Quality

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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