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I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

Neil Young

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’s a blue album, but it’s not a blues album. I’m not pretending all of a sudden now I’m blues.
NEIL YOUNG

Album Blue Eye Sudden
Learning from other people is what music is all about.
NEIL YOUNG

Learn Music Other People
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
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
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
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
We’re very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we’ve learned.
NEIL YOUNG

Evolve Highly Learn Responsible
I want to be a reflection of what’s going on and let people draw their own conclusions.
NEIL YOUNG

People Reflection Want
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
Welfare mothers make better lovers.
NEIL YOUNG

Lover Mother Quality
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
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.
NEIL YOUNG

Friend Night Old Travel
You were born to rock, you’ll never be an opera star.
NEIL YOUNG

Rock Song Stars
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
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

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

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