The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
NEIL YOUNGThere’s an edge to real rock ‘n’ roll. It’s all that matters.
More Neil Young Quotes
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I don’t like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.
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I want to be a reflection of what’s going on and let people draw their own conclusions.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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True love opens the gates of time.
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It’s a blue album, but it’s not a blues album. I’m not pretending all of a sudden now I’m blues.
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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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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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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?
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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.
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I’ve seen the needle And the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie’s Like a settin’ sun.
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An idea discovered is much better possessed.
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Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
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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
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There’s an edge to real rock ‘n’ roll. It’s all that matters.
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I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.
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It is better to burn out then fade away
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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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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.
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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
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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.
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