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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.

Neil Young

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
True love opens the gates of time.
NEIL YOUNG

Gate Open Song Time
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.
NEIL YOUNG

Downtown People Talk
I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.
NEIL YOUNG

People Succeed Talk
Welfare mothers make better lovers.
NEIL YOUNG

Lover Mother Quality
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
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
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
Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can’t describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.
NEIL YOUNG

Abstract Describe Freedom
A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.
NEIL YOUNG

Affection Little World
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
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
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

Emotion Everything Give Ready
I don’t like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.
NEIL YOUNG

Country Democracies People

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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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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