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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’.

Neil Young

The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
NEIL YOUNG

Artist Strong Yield
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
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
Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
NEIL YOUNG

Negative Song World
I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he’s talking to?
NEIL YOUNG

Country Eye Lying Men People
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
You are like a hurricane, there’s calm in your eyes, and I’m getting blown away.
NEIL YOUNG

Eye Hurricane Song
There’s an edge to real rock ‘n’ roll. It’s all that matters.
NEIL YOUNG

Matter Real Rock
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
Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
NEIL YOUNG

Hard People Song Work
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
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
The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
NEIL YOUNG

Degenerates Morality Person
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
I’ve seen the needle And the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie’s Like a settin’ sun.
NEIL YOUNG

Damage Done Little

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