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 YOUNGThe rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we’re creating now, we’re pollinating the universe.
More Neil Young Quotes
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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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Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.
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Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
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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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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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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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Welfare mothers make better lovers.
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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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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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A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.
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Music lovers always want to hear the best. It’s about freedom of choice, we supply the music.
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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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Cocaine eyes won’t hide your face.
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As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.
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