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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.

Neil Young

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
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
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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Job Left Reach Stage
You are like a hurricane, there’s calm in your eyes, and I’m getting blown away.
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Eye Hurricane 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
There’s an edge to real rock ‘n’ roll. It’s all that matters.
NEIL YOUNG

Matter Real Rock
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
I want to be a reflection of what’s going on and let people draw their own conclusions.
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People Reflection Want
The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
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Degenerates Morality Person
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
You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
NEIL YOUNG

Change Lady Old Shirt
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
You were born to rock, you’ll never be an opera star.
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Rock Song Stars
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
An idea discovered is much better possessed.
NEIL YOUNG

Discover Ideas Possessed
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
Think I’ll roll another number for the road
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Rap Think Weed
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
The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
NEIL YOUNG

Music Point Thing
The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
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Artist Strong Yield
Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
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Negative Song World
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
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Free World World
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
Cocaine eyes won’t hide your face.
NEIL YOUNG

Alcohol Drug Eye
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
Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.
NEIL YOUNG

Down Drag Philosophy
Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
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Hard People Song Work

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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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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