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 YOUNGGot to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.
More Neil Young Quotes
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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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Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
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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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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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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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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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The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
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Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.
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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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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.
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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.
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Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can’t describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.
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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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